UCLA Law Fall 2012 Magazine

UCLA Law Fall 2012 Magazine

UCLA Law Fall 2012 Magazine

THE MAGAZINE OF UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW
IN-DEPTH ENGAGEMENT
UCLA Law's Centers and Programs Produce Path-breaking Research and Purposeful Reform
NINTH CIRCUIT ALUMNI APPOINTMENTS
Jacqueline Nguyen '91 and Paul Watford '94
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ninth circuit appointments
Alumni Jacqueline Nguyen '91 and Paul Watford '94 are appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
student assists new orleans community
May Thi Nguyen '13 returned to New Orleans to assist in the wake of the 2010 oil spill and Hurricane Katrina.
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global reach of student work
Students conduct field research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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IN-DEPTH ENGAGEMENT
UCLA Law's centers and programs produce path-breaking research and purposeful reform
UCLA School of Law has always pursued a distinctive approach to achieving impact at the local, state, national and international level. At UCLA Law, the mastery of doctrine, skills and theory serves as the foundation for transformative influence through advocacy and service. These priorities are reinforced through the work of the law school's more than 20 interdisciplinary centers of excellence, which are shaping law and policy and carving an extraordinary path toward lasting change.
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CBS Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves was the keynote speaker.
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Message from the Dean Faculty Scholarship Law School Hosts Inaugural NYU-UCLA Tax Policy Conference UCLA Law Celebrates Law School "Legends" Mayor Villaraigosa Co-Hosts Symposium on Education Reform Visit by Key Figures in International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice Commencement Alumni of the Year Awards Williams Institute Reunions Class Notes
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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
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DEAN RACHEL F. MORAN
preeminent public law school like ours is a national treasure, one that represents the people's highest collective aspirations--reflecting a profound commitment to the rule of law, democratic principles and access to justice. This is the place where we ensure that each succeeding generation will preserve the tenets of freedom of speech, equal protection and due process that make America a great country. From its inception, UCLA School of Law has been true to the special traditions that set an outstanding public law school apart. We have trained students to become leading citizenlawyers who understand that with great privilege comes great responsibility. When Roscoe Pound dedicated our law school building in 1951, he described the imperative "to teach law in the grand manner" by "rais[ing] up lawyers as conscious members of a profession . . . pursuing a common calling as a learned art in the spirit of public service." Ever since, our graduates have gone on to achieve distinction in every sector of the profession and beyond while contributing to their communities in critically important ways. In addition, we have recognized the law school's direct responsibility to tackle the most pressing issues of the day. Pound observed that "a duty is cast upon the faculty of the law school of a state university, both as members of the teaching profession and as members of the legal profession, to exercise the learned arts they pursue in the spirit of ... taking upon themselves the role of a Ministry of Justice." Today, our faculty continues to answer this call to service. As you will see in this magazine's feature article, UCLA Law professors are shaping our society through research, testimony and policy reform, and they are inspiring students to do the same. What Pound could not have contemplated in the early 1950s was the rise of think tanks at the modern American law school. UCLA Law has been in the vanguard of creating impactful programs and centers, often launching initiatives that are the first of their kind. The law school is currently home to the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, one of the best in the nation; the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, the first law school center focused exclusively on climate change; the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, the first and only law school initiative dedicated to the study of sexual orientation law; and the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy, which is driving the agenda for research and reform in this centrally significant field. As you will discover, the work of the law school's more than 20 interdisciplinary centers of excellence is transforming law and policy in unprecedented ways.
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While we are extraordinarily proud of the important work of our centers and programs, it is gratifying when their excellence is recognized by those outside of our community. UCLA Law's Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property Law Program was recently ranked number one by The Hollywood Reporter in a listing of the best schools for an entertainment law education. UCLA Law claimed the top spot on the list for its diverse and specialized course offerings and venerated alumni working in all fields of entertainment. It is not just our esteemed alumni in the entertainment industry who are being recognized for their success. Two UCLA Law alumni, the Honorable Jacqueline Nguyen '91 and Paul Watford '94, were recently confirmed to the United States
where they observed the climate negotiations in action. You also will read about the important work of the UCLA Mobile Clinic, one of the El Centro Legal Clinics, which enables our students to provide legal services to the homeless in Los Angeles. As the law school works to address both current and future needs in our community and our nation, we acknowledge the ways in which today's efforts build on proud traditions. With this in mind, we brought together the individuals who played a formative role in UCLA Law's history at our "Celebration of Legends" event. Former deans and professors who have served since the early days of UCLA Law gathered to share their reflections and reminisce. This unique evening commemorating
"... UCLA Law professors are shaping our society through research, testimony and policy reform, and they are inspiring students to do the same."
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Our law school now has six alumni who are judges on the Ninth Circuit, the largest number of graduates from any law school. Judges Nguyen and Watford share their thoughts on their new positions and reflect on their time at UCLA Law in an interview in this issue. In addition to our alumni, who continue to be active participants in the intellectual life of our school, we were honored to welcome many distinguished guests to UCLA Law during the past academic year. In April, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave the opening address and co-hosted a symposium at the law school that explored the evolution of educational access and equity. In the fall, Luis MorenoOcampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, gave a keynote address at UCLA Law. And, Judge Joan Donoghue of the International Court of Justice visited the law school and spoke with our students. The work of our students also continues to have an impact. Participants in the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo this spring on a research trip organized around three international human rights projects. A student delegation from the Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic traveled to Durban, South Africa to attend the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, these leaders' many accomplishments also recognized the 60th anniversary of the law school's first graduating class. An emphasis on serving the public good has always been part of our identity as a great law school and will remain a defining feature for the future. But the truth is that our far-ranging vision is possible only as a result of your steadfast support and unstinting generosity. This year we successfully closed the Campaign for UCLA School of Law, significantly exceeding our ambitious $100 million goal. Every contribution is making a difference, enabling us to continue to be a special place where public values are expressed through the highest level of individual and institutional excellence. Today, we rededicate ourselves to these lofty aims, seizing the moment even as we honor the past. Warmly,
Rachel F. Moran Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law
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New Appointments
JILL R. HORWITZ Professor of Law Jill Horwitz is a gifted health policy expert, addressing some of the most pressing law and policy issues of our day, including Medicare, the Affordable Care Act and the impact of hospital ownership
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City as a tax attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where his work involved the tax and structural implications of complex mergers, acquisitions and spin-off transactions involving public and private companies, as well as analyzing tax issues relating to debt restructuring and recapitalization transactions. Professor Oh's scholarly interests include tax policy, rent seeking within the tax system and the intersection of corporate fiduciary duties and the corporate tax. His primary teaching interests are tax (including income tax, corporate tax, partnerships and LLCs), tax policy, empirical/statistical methods and torts. His article, "The Social Cost of Fundamental Tax Reform," is forthcoming in 65 Tax Law Review (2012). He earned both his graduate and undergraduate degrees from Harvard University; he received his B.A, summa cum laude, in 2004 with concentrations in Physics and Mathematics and earned his J.D., magna cum laude, in 2007.
on the delivery of medical services. At the University of Michigan, she was co-
director of the law school's Law and Economics Program and held appointments at the School of Public Health and the Ford School of Public Policy. She is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an advisor for the American Law Institute, a fellow at the National Academy of Social Insurance and a core faculty member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical and Health Policy Scholars Program. Her scholarly interests include health law and policy, nonprofit law and policy, torts and empirical law and economics. She teaches Torts and Nonprofit Law and Policy, as well as workshops on law and economics, governance and health care reform. Professor Horwitz is a highly productive scholar who has published in law journals, health policy journals and economics journals. Her scholarly interests focus on the legal regulation of health care organizations, nonprofit organizations, law and economics and tort law. Her empirical research on hospital ownership and medical service provision has won several awards. Horwitz received a J.D., magna cum laude, a master's degree in public policy and a Ph.D. in health policy from Harvard University. She received a B.A., with honors, from Northwestern University. Following law school, she served as a law clerk for Judge Norman Stahl of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
EDWARD A. PARSON Professor of Law Edward Parson is a leading expert on climate change law and policy. At the University of Michigan, he was the Joseph L. Sax collegiate professor of law, professor of natural resources and environment and
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professor of public policy. He will serve as co-faculty director of the law school's
Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment. His book, Protecting the Ozone Layer: Science and Strategy, won the 2004 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award from the International Studies Association. Parson's research was highly influential in the drafting of the Montreal Protocol, the first international treaty to address the need to protect and reverse damage to the ozone layer. He has worked for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment,
JASON OH Acting Professor of Law Jason Oh, a rising star in the field of tax law, joins UCLA Law's renowned tax program from New York University School of Law, where he was an acting assistant professor. Before launching his
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the Privy Council Office of Canada and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He has led and served on many advisory bodies on environment and climate policy, including the U.S. National Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change and the current National Academy of Sciences Panel on America's Climate Choices. Professor Parson's scholarly interests include environmental policy, particularly its international dimensions, the political economy of regulation, the role of science and technology in law, policy and
academic career, Oh worked in New York
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regulation, and the analysis of negotiations, collective decisions and conflicts. Before joining the Michigan faculty, he was a professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He received a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University, an M.Sc. in Management Science from the University of British Columbia and a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Toronto.
advise Congress on the inclusion of disease prevention and health promotion strategies in the Affordable Care Act. Previously, he served as a legislative assistant for health policy in the office of U.S. Senator Tom Daschle. At UCLA, he served as chair of the Department of Public Policy from 2002 to 2006.
MARK A. PETERSON Joint appointment � Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy and Political Science Mark Peterson is a specialist on American national institutions. Much of his scholarship focuses on interactions among the presidency, Congress and interest MARK PETERSON groups, evaluating their implications for policy making, both within the general domain of domestic policy and with special attention to national health care policy and Medicare reform. He has written extensively on how Congress responds to presidential legislative initiatives (including Legislating Together: The White House and Capital Hill from Eisenhower to Reagan, Harvard University Press). As a participant in the Annenberg Institutions of American Democracy Project, he co-chaired the Commission on the Executive Branch and co-edited the volume it produced on the politics and performance of the presidency and bureaucracy (Institutions of American Democracy: The Executive Branch, Oxford University Press), which won the Richard E. Neustadt Award from the American Political Science Association. He has also contributed to the study of the impact of public and elite opinion on the performance of American institutions (Institutions of American Democracy: A Republic Divided, Oxford University Press) and the role of research in policy making. In addition, he edited Health Markets? The New Competition in Medical Care (Duke University Press); and co-edited Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care (Duke University Press) and the series Health Politics and Policy (Sage), as well as edited journal issues on The Managed Care Backlash and Who Shall Lead? Much of his most recent research has been the basis for a book manuscript entitled "The Time Was Right: Political Contexts and Strategic Choices on the Long Road to Health Reform." Encompassing the last 100 years, it examines how recognized problems in the health care system both thwarted health care reform in the past and ultimately made possible the enactment of President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Professor Peterson is a founding team member of the UCLAbased multidisciplinary Blue Sky Health Initiative, which has helped
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Visiting Professors
antonio BERnaRdo Visiting Professor of Law Antonio Bernardo is a professor of finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he has held an appointment since 1994. His research interests are in the areas of corporate finance, information in
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General's commission to draft a Call to Action for Responsible Sexual Behavior; and from 2000 to 2002, he served on the National Human Resources Protections Advisory Commission, charged with reviewing and revising the federal guidelines for protecting human subjects in research projects. Rabbi Dorff is also a member of an advisory committee for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History on the social, ethical and religious implications of their exhibits. Rabbi Dorff was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University.
financial markets and asset pricing. Professor Bernardo has published papers
in many leading academic journals including the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. He served as associate editor of the Review of Financial Studies. He is also an award-winning teacher. His publications include: "Motivating Entrepreneurial Activity in a Firm," 22 Review of Financial Studies 1089 (2009); "Growth Options, Beta, and the Cost of Capital," 36 Financial Management 1 (2007); and "A Theory of Socialistic Internal Capital Markets," 80 Journal of Financial Economics 485 (2006).
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MicHaEl GuttEntaG Visiting Professor of Law Michael Guttentag is the J. Rex Dibble fellow and professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He teaches Business Associations, Commercial Law, Empirical Methods and Securities Regulation. Professor Guttentag's scholarship focuses primarily on securities regulation. He has used a variety of methods to better understand how financial markets should be regulated, including conducting experiments and developing mathematical models. His articles have appeared in a variety of journals and books, including The Indiana Law Journal, The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, The Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law, The Review of Law and Economics, Securities Law Review and The Washington University Law Review. Professor Guttentag received his A.B. from Harvard College, his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and his J.D. from Yale Law School. Prior to coming to academia, Professor Guttentag worked as a senior executive at both public and private firms in the entertainment, financial and technology industries.
Elliot doRff Visiting Professor of Law Rabbi Elliot Dorff is the Rector, Sol & Anne Dorff distinguished service professor in philosophy at the American Jewish University. As a visiting professor, he has taught a course on Jewish law at UCLA
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School of Law for more than 30 years. Rabbi Dorff was awarded the Journal of Law and Religion's Lifetime Achievement
Award and holds three honorary doctoral degrees. He is chair of the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards and served on the editorial committee of Etz Hayim, the new Torah commentary for the Conservative Movement. He has chaired three scholarly organizations: the Academy of Jewish Philosophy, the Jewish Law Association and the Society of Jewish Ethics. He is also immediate past president of the Academy of Judaic, Christian and Islamic Studies. In spring 1993, he served on the Ethics Committee of Hillary Rodham Clinton's Health Care Task Force. In March 1997 and May 1999, he testified on behalf of the Jewish tradition on the subjects of human cloning and stem cell research before the President's National Bioethics Advisory Commission. In 1999 and 2000, he was part of the Surgeon
lEsliE kEndRick Visiting Professor of Law Leslie Kendrick is an associate professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she works in the area of torts and the First Amendment with a focus on speech and the press. She teaches Tort Theory, First Amendment Theory and a seminar on ethical values.
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Her recent and forthcoming publications include: "Speech, Intent, and the Chilling Effect," 54 William and Mary Law Review (forthcoming, 2013); "Disclosure and Its Discontents," 27 Journal of Law and Politics (forthcoming, 2012); "Content Discrimination Revisited," 98 Virginia Law Review 231 (2012); and "Content
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of the UCLA Law Review. After graduation, she served as law clerk to the Honorable James Hunter, III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 1981, Professor Levenson was appointed assistant U.S. attorney, criminal section, in Los Angeles, where she was a trial and appellate lawyer for eight years and attained the position of senior trial attorney and assistant division chief. Professor Levenson was a member of the adjunct faculty of Southwestern University Law School from 1982-1989. She has served as an attorney representative to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, a board member of the UCLA Hillel Council and special master, Los Angeles County Superior Court and U.S. District Court.
Neutrality and Compelling Interests: The October 2010 Term," Virginia Law Review
in Brief 14 (2012). Kendrick received a B.A. in Classics and English as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her master's and doctorate in English literature at the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. In law school at the University of Virginia School of Law, she served as essays development editor for the Virginia Law Review and received numerous awards, including the Margaret G. Hyde Award, the Hardy Cross Dillard Scholarship, the Law School Alumni Association Best Note Award, the Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing, the Food & Drug Law Institute H. Thomas Austern Short Paper Award and the Virginia State Bar Family Law Book Award. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson, III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Hackett Souter.
JAMES PARK Visiting Professor of Law James Park is an associate professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches Securities Regulation, Corporations and Civil Procedure. Before joining the faculty in 2007, he was an assistant attorney
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general in the Investment Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's
Office and a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City. LAURIE L. LEVENSON Visiting Professor of Law Laurie Levenson is a professor of law and David W. Burcham chair in ethical advocacy at Loyola Law School. She joined the Loyola faculty in 1989 and served as Loyola's associate dean for academic affairs from
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Park received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2000, where he won the William K.S. Wang Prize for the best examination in business organizations and the Charles G. Albom Prize for excellence in the preparation of a clinic appeal. After law school, he clerked for Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Judge John G. Koeltl in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. His recent scholarship includes the article, "Rules, Principles, and the Competition to Enforce the Securities Laws," published in the California Law Review in February 2012.
1996-1999. She has taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, White Collar Crime, Ethical Lawyering, Evidence, Terrorism and
the Law and Advanced Trial Advocacy. Professor Levenson's recent scholarship includes: Federal Criminal Rules Handbook (2012 ed. Thomson West); Roadmap on Criminal Law (3rd ed.); Criminal Procedure (Aspen Publishers 2008); Glannon Guide on Criminal Law (3rd ed. 2011); "Courtroom Demeanor: The Theater of the Courtroom," 92 Minnesota Law Review 573 (2008); and "Live and Learn: Depoliticizing the Interim Appointments of U.S. Attorneys," 31 Seattle Law Review 297 (2008). Professor Levenson received her A.B. from Stanford University and her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she was chief articles editor
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NANCY D. POLIKOFF Visiting McDonald/Wright Chair of Law Nancy Polikoff is a professor of law at American University Washington College of Law (WCL), where she teaches Family Law and Sexuality and the Law. She has also taught Civil Procedure, seminars on feminist theory and family law, and a public
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interest law clinic. During the 2011-12 academic year, she was the McDonald/Wright Chair of Law and faculty chair of the Williams Institute at UCLA Law. Before joining the WCL faculty in 1987, Professor Polikoff cofounded the Washington, D.C. Feminist Law Collective and then supervised family law programs at the Women's Legal Defense Fund (now the National Partnership on Women and Families). In 1976, she co-authored one of the first law review articles on custody rights of lesbian mothers. She has been writing about, teaching about and working on litigation and legislation about LGBT families ever since. Her articles have appeared in numerous law reviews, and her book, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law, was published in 2008. Professor Polikoff's article reflecting on her experiences being a lawyer for a social movement, "Am I My Client?: The Role Confusion of a Lawyer Activist," 31 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 443 (1996), has been assigned in numerous law school courses. Professor Polikoff is a member of the National Family Law Advisory Council of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. In 2009, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the D.C. Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance. In 2011, she received the National LGBT Bar Association's Dan Bradley Award, the association's highest honor. Professor Polikoff holds a J.D. from Georgetown and an M.A. in Women's Studies from George Washington University.
the board of directors of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, a member of the public council of the Israeli Democracy Institute and a member of a commission for reform in performers' rights in Israel. Professor Salzberger is a graduate of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law (first in class), and wrote his doctorate at Oxford University on the economic analysis of the doctrine of separation of powers. He clerked for Chief Justices Aharon Barak and Dorit Beinish of the Supreme Court of Israel.
daniEl B. scHwaRcz Visiting Professor of Law Daniel Schwarcz is an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he teaches Insurance Law, Health Care Regulation and Finance, Contract Law and Commercial Law. He
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was named the Stanley V. Kinyon TenureTrack Teacher of the Year for 2007�2008.
Professor Schwarcz's research primarily focuses on consumer protection and regulation in property/casualty and health insurance markets. His articles have been published, or accepted for publication, in the University of Chicago Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, William and Mary Law Review and Tulane Law Review. Additionally, he is the editor
Eli M. salzBERGER Visiting Professor of Law Eli Salzberger is a professor of law at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and former dean. He teaches courses on jurisprudence, law and political thought and economic analysis of public law.
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of a book entitled, The Law and Economics of Insurance, and recently joined the casebook, Abraham's Insurance Law and Regulation, which has been used as the principal text in courses on insurance law in more than 100 American law schools. In 2011, his article, "Reevaluating Standardized Insurance Policies," received the Liberty Mutual Prize for an exceptional article on insurance law and regulation. Professor Schwarcz earned his A.B. degree, magna cum laude, from Amherst College, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. While in law school, he was an articles editor for the Harvard Law Review and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. After law school, he clerked for Judge Sandra Lynch on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and practiced at Ropes & Gray. He subsequently spent two years as a Climenko fellow and lecturer on law at Harvard Law School.
His research focuses on legal theory and philosophy, economic analysis of law, legal
ethics, intellectual property, cyberspace and the Israeli Supreme Court. His latest book (co-authored with Niva Elkin-Koren) is Law, Economics and Cyberspace (Edward Elgar, 2004). Another book with the same co-author, The Law and Economics of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: The Limits of Analysis, is forthcoming this fall (Routledge, 2012). Professor Salzberger was the 2009-2010 Microsoft/LAPA Fellow at Princeton University, where his research focused on the role of the judiciary in the economic theory of the state and on the law and economics of intellectual property. He has served as the president of the European Association of Law and Economics, a member of
MicaH J. scHwaRtzMan Visiting Professor of Law Micah Schwartzman is an associate professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He teaches Constitutional Law and the
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First Amendment (religion clauses), and his areas of interest include law and religion, jurisprudence and political philosophy. His recent and forthcoming publications include: "What if Religion Is Not Special?" 79 University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming, 2013); "The Ethics of Reasoning from Conjecture," Journal of
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williaM E. siMon, JR. Visiting Professor of Law William Simon, Jr. is co-chairman of William E. Simon & Sons, LLC, the firm he co-founded with his brother, J. Peter Simon, and his father, William E. Simon, Sr., former United States treasury secretary.
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Moral Philosophy (forthcoming, 2012); "The Sincerity of Public Reason," 19 Journal of
He is also a senior fellow at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Political Philosophy 375 (2011); and "Conscience, Speech, and Money," 97 Virginia Law Review 317 (2011). Professor Schwartzman received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. During law school at the University of Virginia School of Law, he served as articles development editor of the Virginia Law Review and received several awards, including the Margaret G. Hyde Award, the Daniel Rosenbloom Award and the Hardy Cross Dillard Scholarship. After graduating, Professor Schwartzman clerked for Judge Paul V. Niemeyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Prior to joining the law school's faculty, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University's Society of Fellows in the Humanities.
Professor Simon received his B.A. from Williams College and his J.D. from Boston College Law School, and he attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. After law school, he was an associate at Davis, Markel, Dwyer & Edwards and went on to become an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York (1985-88). He also co-founded a successful municipal bond company, held senior positions on the municipal securities and foreign exchange desk for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and served as vice chairman for the Paxson Communications Corporation. Professor Simon may be best known for entering the political arena in 2001 as a candidate for governor of California, and he came within five points of unseating incumbent governor Gray Davis. In addition, he served as director of policy and speech writing for the Rudy Giuliani 2008 Presidential Campaign Committee. He serves on the board of advisors of the UCLA Medical Center,
Guy scoffoni Visiting Professor of Law Guy Scoffoni, a renowned expert in European and comparative constitutional law, received his education in France, studying law at the University of AixMarseille and completing his doctorate
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and as trustee on the boards of St. John's Health Center Foundation in Los Angeles and The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He also serves as a lifetime member of the board of trustees at Williams College. In addition, he is co-chair of several foundations that promote the growth and support of young students and athletes in the Los Angeles area. Professor Simon is often quoted as a media analyst, frequently contributing his expertise on public policy issues in radio and television appearances on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN, and his op-ed articles have been published in many of the nation's leading newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal.
at the University of Paris Pantheon-Assas (1986). Presently, he is professor of law
at Aix-Marseille University and director of international relations at Sciences Po-Aix. He is a review analyst and editorial consultant of the Revue Francaise de Droit Constitutionnel (French Constitutional Law Review), an administrator of various European programs and a member of national and local selection committees for the Civil Service. Professor Scoffoni has visited and taught at many international institutions of higher learning, including University College London, University of Oslo, University of Montr�al, University of the Western Cape, University of Hong Kong, University of Bologna and University of Chuo, Tokyo. His teaching and research background includes constitutional law, European law, comparative European legal systems and international human rights.
lionEl soBEl Visiting Professor of Law Lionel Sobel is the editor of the Entertainment Law Reporter. He was a professor at Southwestern Law School from 2005 to 2011, where he taught courses on tax and aviation law, and was the
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director of its summer abroad program in London in which he taught International
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Entertainment Law. He was the chair of the American Bar Association's Forum Committee on the Entertainment & Sports Industries from 2007 to 2009. He is the author of the current "Law of Ideas" chapter for Nimmer on Copyright. He also is the author of: International Copyright Law, a casebook; International Entertainment Law, a casebook (written with the late Donald Biederman); Professional Sports and the Law, a text; and co-editor of the third edition of the casebook Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries. He has written chapters for several other books, including the "Entertainment Law" article in The Oxford Companion to American Law, the chapters on royalty accounting and soundtrack music for the music volume of Entertainment Industry Contracts and the chapter on the regulation of player agents in The Law of Professional and Amateur Sports. He has written many articles--some of which have been cited by the Supreme Courts of the United States and state of California, and by federal circuit and district courts--on a wide variety of entertainment law topics, including idea protection, domestic and international copyright and labor and antitrust law. He received a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963, and a J.D. degree from UCLA School of Law in 1969. From 1969 to 1982, he was in private law practice in Los Angeles, first as an associate with Loeb & Loeb and then as a partner in his own firm. In 1982, he joined the faculty of Loyola Law School where he taught courses on copyright, trademark, entertainment law and other subjects until 1997. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA School of Law, a lecturer at Boalt Hall and he was a distinguished scholar at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.
Professor Tomkovicz has taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure: Investigation and Criminal Procedure: Adjudication and Evidence. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, UCLA School of Law and the University of San Diego School of Law, and was a faculty member in the London Law Consortium. Professor Tomkovicz is the co-author (with Professor Welsh S. White (1940-2005)) of a casebook entitled Criminal Procedure: Constitutional Constraints Upon Investigation and Proof (6th ed., 2008, LexisNexis). A seventh edition of the casebook is in progress and should be available for spring 2013 adoption. He has authored an outline entitled Criminal Procedure (1997, Aspen) and a scholarly text concerning the Sixth Amendment right to legal assistance that is entitled The Right to the Assistance of Counsel (Greenwood Press, 2002). In 2011, Oxford University Press published Professor Tomkovicz's most recent book, Constitutional Exclusion: The Rules, Rights, and Remedies that Strike the Balance Between Freedom and Order, an in-depth analysis of the seven constitutional bases for excluding evidence of guilt from criminal trials. In addition, Professor Tomkovicz has written several articles related to criminal procedure and criminal law. He is a member of the California and United States Supreme Court bars.
aBRaHaM R. waGnER Visiting Professor of Law Abraham Wagner is an adjunct professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He teaches in the areas of national security and
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JaMEs J. toMkovicz Visiting Professor of Law James Tomkovicz is the Edward F. Howrey professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. He joined the faculty in 1982 after serving as a visiting professor at Iowa in the spring of 1981 and an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law during
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intelligence and is a senior research fellow at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He also lectures on
national security and counter-terrorism issues. Professor Wagner writes and consults on national and homeland security issues, with a focus on technical issues, such as the evolving threat from cyber-terrorism, issues related to electronic surveillance and nuclear proliferation. He also serves as senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism, and serves as a consultant to several U.S. government agencies. Previously, he served for more than 30 years in the U.S. government, at the National Security Council, the Department of Defense and for the director of Central Intelligence. Professor Wagner's publications include Domestic Intelligence: Needs and Strategies (2009); Terrorism and Surveillance: The Technical and Legal Context (2007); Terrorism, Global Security and the Law (2007); Meeting the Terrorist Challenge: Coping with Failures of Leadership and Intelligence (2007); Cyber-Terrorism: Evolution and Trends (2004); and
the 1981-82 academic year. Prior to that, Professor Tomkovicz was an attorney
with the Appellate Section of the Lands Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edward J. Schwartz, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, and as law clerk to the Honorable John M. Ferren, associate judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
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a four-volume series (with Anthony Cordesman) on Lessons of Modern War and Lebanon in Crisis (1975). He has also published several book chapters, numerous articles and op-ed pieces in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and in the Huffington Post. His most recent book, Henry Kissinger: Scholar, Strategist and Statesman, will be published in 2013. He received his B.A. from Syracuse University; M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester; and J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. Previously, he was an adjunct professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California and also teaches at the Inter-Disciplinary Center in Herzilya, Israel.
PETER T. WENDEL Visiting Professor of Law Peter Wendel is a professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law, where he teaches primarily in the property and wills and trusts areas of law. Prior to joining the Pepperdine faculty
PETER WENDEL
in 1991, he served for three years as an assistant professor at St. Louis University School of Law. Professor Wendel has been
a regular visitor at UCLA School of Law, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and the University of Augsburg, Germany, School of Law. Professor Wendel has published three books: A Possessory Estates and Future Interests Primer (2nd ed. West); Emanuel's Wills, Trusts and Estates (Aspen); and Exam-Pro Property (West). Two of his more recent articles include: "Protecting Newly Discovered Antiquities: Thinking Outside the 'Fee Simple' Box," 76 Fordham Law Review 1015 (November 2007); and "Inheritance Rights and The Step-Partner Adoption Paradigm: Shades of the Discrimination Against Illegitimate Children," 34 Hofstra Law Review 351 (Winter 2005). He attended the University of Chicago, where he graduated in 1979 with a B.S. in Political Science. He earned a master's degree in Urban Affairs from St. Louis University, and his J.D. in 1983 from the University of Chicago Law School. In 2011, he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. in law by the University of Augsburg.
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Dean Moran Appointed to Key Administrative Post
PResident oBama aPPointed dean Rachel F. moRan, Michael J. Connell distinguished professor of law, to serve as a member of the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. The committee was established by Congress in 1955 to administer funds bequeathed to the government by the late Justice Holmes. It is charged with sponsoring an annual lecture or series of lectures and with directing the ongoing development of a multivolume history of the U.S. Supreme Court that comprehensively treats the development of the Court from its origins to the present. Pre-eminent scholars in U.S. legal history are commissioned to write the volumes, which stand as major works of reference about the court.
Rachel F. Moran
Pavel Wonsowicz Honored with Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching
Pavel WonsoWicz, director of UCLA School of Law's Academic Support Program, was honored with the 2012 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching at the 33rd Rutter Award Presentation Ceremony in April. The award, established by William "Bill" Rutter, is presented annually to a professor who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to teaching. "Anyone who has taken a course from Professor Wonsowicz or observed his class can attest that he is someone who deeply and passionately cares about teaching," said Dean Rachel F. Moran. "He presents difficult material with great clarity and humor." Professor Wonsowicz, who joined the law school faculty in 2008, teaches Evidence and Constitutional Law I. After accepting the award, he spoke briefly about his journey as a teacher and the lessons he learned from his father. Professor Wonsowicz emphasized that a teacher should impart knowledge with passion, humor and respect. As he concluded his speech, Professor Wonsowicz announced that he would be donating part of the Rutter Award proceeds to the Law Fellows Program.
In Memoriam
William (Bill) RutteR, a creative entrepreneur and a dear friend of UCLA Law, passed away in February. Bill made numerous contributions to legal education. He is the father of Gilbert's Outlines, conceiving and writing all of the original summaries. He created and managed for many years the leading bar review course in the state. He formed the highly successful Rutter Group, which he sold to West Publishing Co. and which provides high-quality educational materials and seminars for practicing lawyers. While these accomplishments are significant, the contribution we hold most dear is the creation of the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. Bill, who attended the law school's Rutter Award ceremony every year, believed that universities must reward excellent teaching as they do critical research. Established in 1979, the award recognizes and honors outstanding commitment to teaching at five law schools � Bill's alma mater, USC, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Hastings and UCLA. Bill shared our passion for exceptional teaching, and we are privileged to benefit from his generosity. We are deeply grateful to Bill for creating this wonderful way of showcasing and celebrating our exceptional professors. The award has become not only a symbol of recognition, but also an opportunity to celebrate our success as one of the greatest teaching faculties in legal education. Bill is survived by his wife of many years, Sally, their son Paul '78, as well as a large and loving family of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Bill was a stalwart member of our UCLA Law family, and our condolences go out to all of the Rutter family.
Pavel Wonsowicz with his daughter and students
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Recent Faculty Scholarship Fourth Most Influential in Country
Recent ucla school oF laW faculty scholarship was recognized as the fourth most influential in the country in "The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time," 110 Michigan Law Review 1483 (June 2012). UCLA Law joined Yale, Harvard and the University of Chicago among the top four based on where faculty members were when they produced their most-cited works. UCLA Law ranked in the top four along with Yale, Harvard and Stanford for where faculty members with the most-cited articles currently are. Two of Professor Kimberl� Crenshaw's articles and one of Professor Frances E. Olsen's articles were among the most-cited law review articles of all time. Faculty members also wrote articles among the five most-cited in 1991 (Professor Kimberl� Crenshaw); 1993 (Professor Cheryl Harris); 2000 (Professor Russell Korobkin (with Thomas S. Ulen)); 2003 (Professor Stephen M. Bainbridge); 2005 (Professor Jerry Kang); and 2006 (Professor Bainbridge; Professor Adam Winkler). Professor Olsen also wrote one of the most-cited articles in family law.
Professor Norman Abrams Receives Distinguished Lifetime Service Award
at a ceRemony in may, former Acting Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus Norman Abrams received the highest distinction conferred by the UCLA Emeriti Association, the Lifetime Distinguished Service Award. He was honored for his continued service to the university and his outstanding contributions to emeriti activities. Abrams joined the faculty and has been a member of the UCLA family since 1959. He continues to teach and write in the areas of federal criminal Norman Abrams law, anti-terrorism law and evidence. From 1991 to 2001, he served as UCLA's vice chancellor of academic personnel, overseeing faculty appointments and promotions on the campus. He served as interim dean of the law school from 2003 to 2004, and earlier had served as associate dean, from 1989 to 1991.
Professor M�ximo Langer Awarded 2012 De�k Prize
PRoFessoR m�ximo 2012 De�k Prize for his article, "The Diplomacy of Universal Jurisdiction: The Political Branches and the Transnational Prosecution of International Crimes." The annual Francis De�k Prize is awarded to a younger author for meritorious scholarship published in The American Journal of International
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langeR was awarded the
Law. Professor Langer writes on and teaches domestic, comparative and
international criminal law and procedure. He has published articles and book chapters in both English and Spanish, and his work has been translated into Chinese and Spanish.
Three UCLA Law Affiliated Blogs Selected as Top Legal Blogs of 2011
thRee ucla laW aFFiliated Blogs were selected as top 100 legal blogs for 2011--the most blogs selected from any law school this year. The blogs chosen are Professor Stephen Bainbridge's blog ProfessorBainbridge.com, Professor Eugene Volokh's blog The Volokh Conspiracy and the joint UCLA Law/Berkeley Law blog Legal Planet. They were chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal for inclusion in the publication's fifth annual "Blawg 100."
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Professor Gary Blasi Honored with ACLU Humanitarian Award
Professor Gary l. blasi received the 2012 Humanitarian Award from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California. The annual award is presented to an attorney for extraordinary efforts to protect civil liberties and civil rights. Professor Blasi was recognized for his work as co-counsel on Valentini v. Shinseki, a challenge to the Department of Veterans Affairs' Gary Blasi discrimination against severely disabled veterans and misappropriation of land intended to be used solely for their benefit. Professor Blasi's son, Jeremy, who also worked on the case as an intern at the ACLU, accepted the award on his father's behalf during the awards ceremony in June.
Professors Carbado and Crenshaw Selected for Power 100 List
Professors devoN carbado aNd KiMberl� creNshaw were selected in the category of Public Intellectuals by the news and media company, On Being a Black Lawyer, for its inaugural Power 100 list, a catalog of the nation's most influential black attorneys working in government, academics and both the public and private sectors. They were profiled in a special edition and honored at a reception in Washington, D.C.
Dean Moran Named One of the Top 100 Influential Hispanics
deaN rachel f. MoraN, Michael J. Connell distinguished professor of law, was featured in PODER Hispanic Magazine's December/January 2012 issue as one of the "Top 100 Influential Hispanics" for her leadership as the first Latina dean of a topranked U.S. law school.
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Professor Jyoti Nanda Receives "Dream of Los Angeles Award"
Professor Jyoti NaNda was presented with the "Dream of Los Angeles Award" by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa during the opening ceremonies for the City of Los Angeles Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month. Professor Nanda, whose teaching and research interests include juvenile justice, public interest advocacy and civil rights, was honored for her work with the law school's David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy and Critical Race Studies Program.
Professor Laura G�mez Named Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians
Professor laura e. G�Mez has been appointed by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) to the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program for Laura G�mez 2012-13. As part of the program, she will present a lecture on behalf of OAH, the largest professional society devoted to the study of American history, at least once each academic year for three years. Professor G�mez, who rejoined the UCLA Law faculty in 2011, teaches in the areas of race and the law, law and society, constitutional law, civil procedure and criminal law. She has lectured widely and has published numerous articles, book chapters and op-ed commentaries, as well as two books.
Jyoti Nanda
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Professor Winkler's Book Gunfight Examines America's Battle Over Gun Control and the Right to Bear Arms
Professor adam WinKler has published a new book, Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011). Using the Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation's capital as a starting point, he examines America's battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. The book provides a historical narrative, from the founding fathers and the Second Amendment to the Black Panthers' role in the modern gun rights movement, and weaves together stories of gun rights advocates and gun control lobbyists to provide insights into the nation's current gun rights debate.
Professor Raustiala Publishes New Book on Relationship Between Intellectual Property and Innovation
Professor Kal raustiala has coauthored with Christopher Sprigman, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (Oxford University Press, September 2012), a new book that examines the relationship between intellectual property and innovation. The authors explore creative fields where copying is prevalent, such as fashion, food and football, and argue that copyrights and patents are not always necessary to promote innovation. In fact, the authors explore the possibility of industries succeeding and evolving from an atmosphere of free copying. They demonstrate how creativity can survive in the face of imitation, and find that intellectual property's absence is sometimes better for innovation.
New Book by Professor Carbado Presents First-Person Accounts of Runaway Slaves
Professor devon carBado is the co-editor, along with Donald Weise, a scholar in African American history, of a groundbreaking compilation of fugitive slave narratives entitled The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives (Beacon Press, August 2012). Spanning eight decades, the collection of twelve narratives is told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, and includes tales from well-known figures like Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass, as well as lesser-heard but powerful voices. The narratives seek to reveal the remarkable and often inventive ways the men and women of the runaway slave phenomenon fought for freedom and citizenship. Professor Carbado and Donald Weise demonstrate the similarities of the American slave experience, while emphasizing each fugitive's unique voice.
Professor Stephen Munzer Authors Guide to Address Stem Cell Product Liability
Professor stePhen munzer authored a road map to help guide researchers, manufacturers, physicians and patients through the maze of creating stem cell products and using them to treat disease. In his article "Risk and Reward in Stem Cell Products: A New Model for Stem Cell Product Liability," published in the Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law, Professor Munzer offers suggestions on how stem cell products might be classified in the future, examines how applying existing product liability rules to stem cell products is inadequate, details the economic considerations for a stem cell liability regime and offers his views of what the law should be on liability for stem cells.
Professor Joseph Doherty Publishes Book on Transparency and the U.S. Civil Justice System
Professor JosePh doherty, director of the law school's Empirical Research Group, is the co-editor, with Robert Reville and Laura Zakaras of RAND, of a new book of essays addressing the quest for greater transparency in the American civil justice system. Confidentiality, Transparency, and the U.S. Civil Justice System (Oxford University Press, April 2012) is the first book to approach the issue in a multidisciplinary and empirical manner. The editors offer empirical analyses and case studies of the impact of greater disclosure on various aspects of the system, and propose several prescriptions for reform. The book is the first publication of the UCLA-RAND Center for Law and Public Policy.
Professors Bergman, Goodman and Holm Publish Book on How to Succeed in Law School
Professors Paul Bergman, PatricK goodman and thomas holm have published a new book, Cracking the Case Method: Legal Analysis for Law School Success (Vandeplas Publishing, 2012), in which they discuss why and how law school professors use appellate court cases as tools for teaching legal analysis. In Cracking the Case Method, they make a compelling case that in order for students to succeed in law school, they must integrate analytical skills into original stories by constructing their own unique arguments, both in class and when writing final examination essays. UCLA LAW MAGAZINE |
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Recent Faculty Scholarship and Activities
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kHalEd aBou El fadl Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law At an event in March, Professor Abou El Fadl was honored by the Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA Muslim Law Student Association and UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program. He was appointed as a distinguished guest lecturer at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, beginning summer 2012, and as a consultant to the committee drafting the new Egyptian constitution. He gave keynote lectures at "The Changing Political Face of the Middle East and the Role for Islamic Law," held at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in March, and "Locating the Shari'a: Creating New Sources for Knowledge and Inquiry," at UC Santa Barbara in February. He was a roundtable participant at the UCLA Law symposium "Law, Human Rights and Revolution: Transitions in the Wake of the Arab Spring," sponsored by the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs in February, and a featured lecturer at the Masjid al-Hedayah annual benefit dinner, held in Santa Ana, California. In November, Professor Abou El Fadl gave the keynote lecture "Is Liberty God's Law? Shari'a, the Military and the Arab Revolutions" at a University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law symposium, and he was a featured speaker at the Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) book launch, held at UCLA. He gave the Kenner Lecture at Lehigh University on "Is Shariah the Solution?
The Promises and Problematics of Divine Law Today" in September 2011. Publications The Challenge of Islamophobia (in Arabic). AlShorouk Al Dawliyya (forthcoming, 2012). "Violence, Personal Commitment, and Democracy," in God, Islam and English Law (Ian Edge and Robin Griffith-Jones, eds.). Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2012). "Cultivating Human Rights: Islamic Law and the Humanist Imperative," in Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought: Studies in Honor of Professor Hossein Modarressi (Michael Cook, Asma Sayeed, Intisar Rabb and Najam Haider, eds.). Palgrave Macmillan (2012). Preface: Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought: Studies in Honor of Professor Hossein Modarressi (Michael Cook, Asma Sayeed, Intisar Rabb and Najam Haider, eds.). Palgrave Macmillan (2012). "Shariah and Constitutionalism," in Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity (Rainer Grote and Tillman Roder, eds.). Oxford University Press (2012). Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History (series editor). Palgrave Macmillan (2012).
Handbook of Islamic Law (editor). Routledge (2012). "Religious Authority in the 21st Century," in the conference publication for "Speaking in God's Name: Re-examining Gender in Islam," (forthcoming, 2012). "Conceptualizing Shari'a in the Modern State," 56 Villanova Law Review 803 (2012). noRMan aBRaMs Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus Professor Abrams received the Lifetime Distinguished Service Award, the highest distinction conferred by the UCLA Emeriti Association, in May. He was an honoree at UCLA Law's Celebration of Legends in February, and he was elected to the UCLA Foundation Governors this academic year. Professor Abrams moderated a panel on "Religion, Nationalism and the Sovereign State" at the conference "Exploring the Meanings of Jewish Sovereignty," sponsored by the UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in May. He also moderated a panel at the Nazarian Center conference "Israel in 3D" in January. Publications 2012 Supplement. Federal Criminal Law and Its Enforcement (with Sara Sun Beale and Susan Riva Klein). 5th ed. West Publishing (2010). 2012 Evidence, Rules and Statute Supplement.
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Evidence: Cases and Materials (with Jack B. Weinstein et al.). 9th ed. Foundation Press (1997). "Terrorism Prosecutions in U.S. Federal Court: Exceptions to Constitutional Evidence Rules and the Development of a Cabined Exception for Coerced Confessions," Harvard National Security Journal (forthcoming, 2012). "The Case for a Cabined Exception to Coerced Confession Doctrine in Civilian Terrorism Prosecutions," in Patriots Debate: Contemporary Issues in National Security Law (Harvey Rishikof, Stewart Baker and Bernard Horowitz, eds.). ABA Publishing (forthcoming, 2012). "The Cabined Exception Proposal: A Reply to Professor Slobogin," in Patriots Debate: Contemporary Issues in National Security Law (Harvey Rishikof, Stewart Baker and Bernard Horowitz, eds.). ABA Publishing (forthcoming, 2012). "Should We Create Exceptions to Rules Regarding Coerced Interrogation of Terrorism Suspects?" ABA Journal (June 2012). Response: "Five Questions on National Security," 38 William Mitchell Law Review 1597 (2012). STEPHEN BAINBRIDGE William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law Professor Bainbridge was named one of
the 100 most influential people in the field of corporate governance by Directorship magazine. His blog, ProfessorBainbridge. com, was named a top 100 legal blog for 2011 by the editors of the ABA Journal in the publication's fifth annual "Blawg 100." In March, Professor Bainbridge presented "Director Primacy in Nonprofit Organizations: Who's in Charge?" at the State Compensation Insurance Fund of California Board of Directors Training Program. Publications Mergers and Acquisitions. 3rd ed. Foundation Press (2012). Insider Trading. Edward Elgar Publishing (2012). Agency, Partnerships, and Limited Liability Entities: Cases and Materials on Unincorporated Business Associations (with William A. Klein and J. Mark Ramseyer). 3rd ed. Foundation Press (2012). Business Associations: Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations (with William A. Klein and J. Mark Ramseyer). 8th ed. Foundation Press (2012). Business Associations: Agency, Partnerships, LLCs and Corporations: Statutes and Rules (with William A. Klein and J. Mark Ramseyer). 15th ed. Foundation Press (2012).
Corporate Governance after the Financial Crisis. Oxford University Press (2012). "Corporate Lawyers as Gatekeepers," 8 UCLA School of Law Journal of Scholarly Perspectives 5 (2012). Directors as Auctioneers: A Concise Guide to Revlon-Land. Amazon Digital Services (2011). ASLI �. B�LI Acting Professor of Law Professor B�li was selected as a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey this spring. In April, she presented "Judicial Independence and Democratic Transitions After the Arab Uprisings" at a Cornell Law School Clarke Colloquium Series Workshop on Arab Transitions and presented "Censorship in the Age of Counter-insurgency and Counterterrorism" at the International Studies Association Annual Conference, held in San Diego. She was also a keynote lecturer on "Democratic Transitions After the Arab Uprisings" at Pitzer College, presented "Humanitarianism and Intervention in the 21st Century" at the Institute for Advanced Study and presented "The Case Against Intervention in Syria" at a Yale Law School Middle East Legal Forum and "Responsibility to Protect Libya" at a Yale conference on the "Responsibility to Protect" Doctrine. In March, Professor B�li presented: "Judicial Independence and Democratic Transitions
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after the Arab Uprisings" at the inaugural conference of the New York University School of Law Center on Constitutional Transitions; "Revolution by Intervention?: Humanitarianism and the Arab Uprisings" at an annual symposium at the Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies; and "Judicial Independence and Democratic Transition After the Arab Spring" at a faculty colloquium at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She spoke on "Conceptual Origins and Commonalities of post-9/11 Detention Practices at Home and Abroad" at the Columbia Law School symposium on National Security Precautions and Administrative Detentions and presented "Subordination by Law? Muslim American Legal Status Since 9/11" at a book workshop at Princeton University. She also served as the organizer/moderator of three panels on international humanitarian law topics at the Annual Conference of the American Society of International Law, held in Washington, D.C. In February, Professor B�li co-organized the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs annual symposium on "Law, Human Rights and Revolution: Transitions in the Wake of the Arab Spring" and presented "Judicial Independence and Democratic Transition in the Arab Spring." In January, she presented "Judicial Independence and Democratic Transition After the Arab Spring" at a faculty colloquium at the Boston College Law School and was an invited presenter at a Yale Law School Middle East Legal Studies Seminar, held in Istanbul, Turkey. In December, she was a panelist and presenter at the Middle
East Studies Association Annual Meeting, held in Washington, D.C., as well as a presenter at Drexel School of Law faculty workshops. In November, Professor B�li was a panelist at UCLA Law and UC Santa Barbara events examining human rights and the Middle East a decade after 9/11. In October, she presented "Promoting Democratic Governance After the Arab Spring" at a Boston College Law School conference, was a panelist on "Whither Libya" at a UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies event and was a speaker at the Latino/Latina Critical Legal Theory Annual Meeting, held in San Diego. In September 2011, Professor B�li presented "The Paradox of Judicial Independence" at the Berkeley � UCLA Junior Faculty Exchange and presented on "Gender, Race and International Human Rights Law" at a USC Gould School of Law seminar. She was a presenter at the UCLA Law lecture on "The War on Terror from Bush to Obama: Civil Liberties Ten Years After 9/11" and she spoke on "Authoritarian Legacies and Judicial Politics in Turkey" at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, held in Seattle. Publications "Legality and Legitimacy in the Global Order: The Changing Landscape of Nuclear Nonproliferation," in Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs. Oxford University Press (2012). "The Perils of Judicial Independence: Constitutional Transition and the Turkish
Example," 52 Virginia Journal of International Law 235 (2012). "A Turkish Model for the Arab Spring?" 3 Journal of Middle East Law & Governance 24 (2011). STEVEN BANK Vice Dean and Professor of Law Professor Bank's new book, Anglo-American Corporate Taxation: Tracing the Roots of Common Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2011), was profiled in Reid Thompson's and David Weisbach's "Corporate Tax Articles," 134 Tax Notes 1449, as one of the most notable corporate tax articles/books in 2011. Professor Bank presented "Does Law Provide the Foundation for Stock MarketOriented Corporate Governance? The U.S. Mid-Twentieth-Century Equity Crunch" at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference, held in Philadelphia in March. Publications Anglo-American Corporate Taxation: Tracing the Roots of Common Approaches. Cambridge University Press (2011). PAUL BERGMAN Professor of Law Emeritus Professor Bergman served as a panelist on "Reel Justice: Ethics Goes to the Movies" at the 85th Annual National Conference of
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Bankruptcy Judges, held in Tampa, Florida in October. He has given presentations for the UCLA Affiliates, the UCLA Law Fellows Program and St John's Medical Center in Santa Monica, California. He recorded an online series of lectures for Themis Bar Review and is a blog site author for Nolo.com and Bizymoms.com. Publications Cracking the Case Method: Legal Analysis for Law School Success (with Patrick D. Goodman and Thomas W. Holm). Vandeplas Publishing (2012). Lawyers As Counselors: A Client-Centered Approach (with David A. Binder, Paul R. Tremblay and Ian S. Weinstein). 3rd ed. West Publishing (2012). Criminal Law: A Desk Reference. Nolo Press (2011). stuaRt BiEGEl Lecturer in Law Professor Biegel was a plenary session panelist and featured speaker at an LGBT Youth Summit in Washington, D.C., addressing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in June. He served as a moderator and helped organize the symposium, "Learning Curve: The Trajectory of Education Reform Litigation in California," hosted by UCLA School of Law and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in
April. He was a featured panelist at the 2011 UCLA community event, "New Media, Old Sentiments: A Community Discussion on `Asians in the Library.'" He served as a consultant for both the National Education Association and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights concerning peer violence, bullying and related issues during the academic year. Publications Education and the Law. 3rd ed. (American Casebook Series). West/Thomson-Reuters (2012). GaRy l. Blasi Professor of Law Professor Blasi received the 2012 Humanitarian Award from the ACLU of Southern California in June for his work on a class action suit against the Veterans' Administration on behalf of homeless veterans. He spoke to a gathering of public interest advocates in Moscow in May at the request of the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative in Russia. He gave a presentation and helped organize the symposium, "Learning Curve: The Trajectory of Education Reform Litigation in California," hosted by UCLA School of Law and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in April. saMuEl l. BRay Acting Professor of Law Professor Bray gave the keynote address "Empirical Assumption in `Announcing
Remedies'" at the Western Empirical Legal Studies Conference in February. Publications "Announcing Remedies," 97 Cornell Law Review 753 (2012). taiMiE l. BRyant Professor of Law Professor Bryant spoke on "Drawing Connections Between Animal Law and Other Disciplines" at the 19th Annual Animal Law Conference, "Standing Up for Animals: Can a Bad Economy Inspire Greater Goodness?" held at Lewis & Clark Law School in October. daniEl BussEl Professor of Law Professor Bussel was a panelist on "Stern v. Marshall" at the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal ninth annual symposium, held in Atlanta in March. He presented on "Ethical Issues in Bankruptcy" at the Capital Region Bankruptcy Bar Association 16th Annual Bankruptcy Conference in Lake George, New York in November. In October, he presented: "Winning Your Bankruptcy Appeal" at the Beverly Hills Bar Association; "Anna Nicole, Stripped of Legacy Forces Bankruptcy System to Rerun Marathon" at the Financial Lawyers Conference in Los Angeles; and "Arthur Rosett Festschrift" at a UCLA School of Law colloquium.
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Publications Bankruptcy (with William Warren and David A. Skeel, Jr.). 9 ed. Foundation Press (2012).
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Publications "My Elixir, MD: Morphing a Medical Degree into a Skincare Brand," in Dermatoethics: Contemporary Ethics and Professionalism in Dermatology (Lionel Bercovitch and Clifford Perlis, eds.). Springer (2012). "Court-Ordered Care � A Complication of Pregnancy to Avoid," 366 The New England Journal of Medicine 24 (2012). "To Improve Maternity Care in the U.S., Think Midwives," 85 Contraception 128 (2012). dEvon w. caRBado Professor of Law Professor Carbado was selected by On Being a Black Lawyer for the news and media company's inaugural Power 100 list, a catalog of the nation's most influential black attorneys working in government, academics and both the public and private sectors. He presented draft chapters of his book Acting White? (co-authored with Mitu Gulati) at faculty colloquia at Colorado Law School, Cornell Law School, Harvard Law School and Northeastern Law School. He spoke about "Colorblind Intersectionality" at the annual Law and Society Association Conference, which was held in Honolulu, Hawaii in June. In April, he presented "What's Left of Feminist Legal Theory" at the 2011-12 Colloquium on New Directions in Gender and Sexuality Studies, sponsored by the UCLA
Department of Women's Studies. Professor Carbado delivered the Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture at Earlham College on "Race in the Age of Post Racialism" in Richmond, Indiana in January. Publications The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives (with Donald Weise). Beacon Press (2012). "Implicit Bias in the Courtroom," (with Jerry Kang, Judge Mark Bennett, Pam Casey, Nilanjana Dasgupta, David Faigman, Rachel Godsil, Anthony G. Greenwald, Justin Levinson and Jennifer Mnookin), 59 UCLA Law Review 1124-1186 (2012). "Undocumented Criminal Procedure," (with Cheryl I. Harris), 8 UCLA School of Law Journal of Scholarly Perspectives 25 (2012). "Undocumented Criminal Procedure," (with Cheryl I. Harris), 58 UCLA Law Review 15431616 (2011). "Critical What What?," 43 Connecticut Law Review 1593-1643 (2011). ann E. caRlson Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law; Faculty Director, Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment Professor Carlson was a presenter and commenter at the fourth annual "Work-inProgress Workshop on Natural Resources,
"No Conflict," 25 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 207 (2012). JuliE cantoR Adjunct Professor of Law Professor Cantor gave a grand rounds lecture to the Olive View-UCLA Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Sylmar, California on "When Doctors' Orders Become Court Orders � Do Pregnant Women Have the Right to Refuse Care?" in May. She also organized and hosted a special screening of the documentary, "No Woman, No Cry," and moderated a panel discussion that included the film's director, Christy Turlington Burns. In April, she gave a lecture on courtordered care for pregnant women at the 67th Annual Obstetrical and Gynecological Assembly of Southern California in Marina del Rey, and she spoke on "The Law of Abortion � Past, Present, Future" at the conference. In April and March, she gave a lecture on courtordered care for pregnant women at the UCLA Perinatal Nursing Conferences. She was a panelist on "The Latest Developments in the War on Reproductive Rights" at a Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles event in January.
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Energy, and Environment in a Climate Changed World," held at the University of Colorado Law School in August and cosponsored by Duke Law School. In June, she was a participant at a workshop on "The Role of Public Utility Commissions in Climate and Energy Policy" at the University of Colorado Law School. Professor Carlson spoke on "Designing Effective Climate Policy: Capand-Trade and Complementary Policies" at a faculty workshop at Minnesota Law School in May. She convened a workshop on public utilities commissions at UCLA School of Law in March. In February, she was a participant at an American Academy of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee workshop on "Alternative Energy Future." Professor Carlson was a panelist and participant on "Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Sources: Section 111(d) and State Equivalency" at Duke Law School in December and she was a moderator on "CERCLA and Federalism" at Southwestern Law School in November. She presented "Designing Effective Climate Policy: Capand-Trade and Complementary Policies" at an Emory Law School faculty workshop in October and was a commentator at an Emory Law School workshop on environmental federalism in September 2011. Publications
"Spending California's Cap-and-Trade Auction Revenue: Understanding the Sinclair Paint Risk Spectrum," (with Rhead Enion, Cara Horowitz and Sean Hecht) (March 2012). kiMBERl� w. cREnsHaw Professor of Law Professor Kimberl� Crenshaw was selected by On Being a Black Lawyer for the news and media company's inaugural Power 100 list, a catalog of the nation's most influential black attorneys working in government, academics and both the public and private sectors. Two of her articles were listed among the 100 most-cited law review articles of all time, in "The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time," 110 Michigan Law Review 1483 (June 2012). She was honored as one of Southern California's Freedom's Sisters, and in November received the Community Champion Award by A New Way of Life Reentry Project. In December, Professor Crenshaw presented "Where the Girls Are: Assessing the Achievement of Girls in Public Schools" at the Schott Foundation Education Summit. She presented "Still in Defense of Ourselves" at Hunter College's "Anita Hill, 20 Years Later: Sex, Power, and Speaking Truth" in October, which was broadcast on C-Span. Publications
An Intersectional Critique of the Rhetoric of Solidarity and Betrayal," in Sexuality, Gender and Power: Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives (Anna G. J�nasd�ttir, Valerie Bryson and Kathleen B. Jones, eds.). Routledge (2011). "Twenty Years of Critical Race Theory: Looking Back to Move Forward," 43 Connecticut Law Review 1253 (2011). scott cuMMinGs Professor of Law Professor Cummings was a panelist on "What Is Happening to Pro Bono?" at the 19th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Conference "Toward the Constitutional Right of Access to Justice: Implications and Implementation" at the Colorado Law Bryon R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law, held in Denver, Colorado in November. He presented "The Ties that Bind: Mapping Arenas of Engagement between Corporate and Public Interest Law in Emerging Economies" at a Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession, Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (GLEE) Project in New Delhi, India in October. In September 2011, he presented "Litigation at Work: Defending Day Labor in Los Angeles" at the Sixth Annual Labor and Employer Law Colloquium, held at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Publications
"Designing Effective Climate Policy: Capand-Trade and Complementary Policies," 49 Harvard Journal on Legislation 207 (2012). "The Curious Resurrection of First Wave Feminism in the U.S. Presidential Elections:
Review Essay, Journal of Legal Education
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(forthcoming, 2012). Reviewing Stones of Hope: How African Activists Reclaim Human Rights to Challenge Global Poverty (Lucie E. White and Jeremy Perleman, eds.). Stanford University Press (2011). "The Pursuit of Legal Rights--and Beyond," 59 UCLA Law Review 506 (2012). "The Future of Public Interest Law," 33 University of Arkansas Little Rock Law Journal 355 (2011). JEffREy dastEEl Adjunct Professor of Law Professor Dasteel co-presented "The 2012 ICC Rules: Efficiency and Flexibility" at the Los Angeles International Arbitration Forum, and he served as a moderator for "How Much Information Is Too Much Information? Managing Electronic Document Production in International Arbitration," at the Third Annual ICC Asia-Pacific Conference in March. Publications "International Arbitration in the United States," in Practitioner's Handbook on International Arbitration and Mediation (Joelle A. Perez, ed.). 3rd ed. Juris Publishing (forthcoming, 2012). "Discrimination in the Selection and Appointment of Arbitrators," 11 Richmond
Journal of Global Law and Business (forthcoming, 2012). "Franchising," (with John Donovan and Frances Kao), in Business and Commercial Litigation in the Federal Courts (Robert L. Haig, ed.). 3rd ed. Westlaw (2011). "International Commercial Arbitration," 23 California Business Law Practitioner (2011). PatRick dEl duca Adjunct Professor of Law Professor Del Duca served as co-chair of the Mexico Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law and as a co-chair of its organizing committee for the June program in Mexico City on "Legal Challenges and Opportunities of Mexico's Increasing Global Integration: Finance, Investment, Trade and Competition Law." He moderated the program, "Cross-Border Secured Lending: Challenges of Structuring the Collateral Package," at the April meeting of the American Bar Association, Section of International Law, in New York City. He is an editor of Mexico Update and Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal, and translated articles from Spanish to English for these publications. Publications "Why Some Civil Law Systems Burden Notice-Filing with a Civil Law Notary
`Public Writing' Requirement," 44 Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal 33 (2011). JosHua foa diEnstaG Professor of Law and Political Science Publications "A Storied Shooting: Liberty Valance and the Paradox of Sovereignty," 40 Political Theory 290 (2012). JosEPH w. doHERty Director, Empirical Research Group; Adjunct Professor of Law Publications Confidentiality, Transparency, and the U.S. Civil Justice System (with Robert T. Reville and Laura Zakaras, eds.). Oxford University Press (2012). "Expectations, Outcomes and Fairness: Lessons from the Civil Justice Reform Act Evaluation," (with Stephen J. Carroll), in Confidentiality, Transparency, and the U.S. Civil Justice System (with Robert T. Reville and Laura Zakaras, eds.). Oxford University Press (2012). david dolinko Professor of Law Publications Book Review, 6 Criminal Law and Philosophy 93 (2012). Reviewing Crime and Culpability, A Theory of Criminal Law (Larry Alexander
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and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan with Stephen J. Morse). Cambridge University Press (2009). sHaRon dolovicH Professor of Law Professor Dolovich presented "Two Models of the Prison: Accidental Humanity and Hypermasculinity in the L.A. County Jail" at faculty workshops at the University of Connecticut Law School in February, at the San Quentin Prison University Project in January, at Loyola Law School in November and at UCLA Law in September 2011. She also presented "Incarceration American-Style" at the Hoffinger Criminal Justice Forum, held at NYU School of Law in February. Publications "Creating the Permanent Prisoner," in Life Without Parole: The New Death Penalty? (Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat, eds.). NYU Press (forthcoming, 2012). "Exclusion and Control in the Carceral State," 16 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 259 (2011). inGRid EaGly Acting Professor of Law
for "Immigration Enforcement and Criminal Justice: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches" at the Annual Law & Society Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii and she was a panelist on "Immigration Enforcement: Looking Back and Looking Forward" at the conference. Professor Eagly was also a panelist on "Hot Topics: Arizona's SB 1070" at an immigration law teachers workshop at Hofstra University School of Law in New York. In April, she was a speaker on "Spheres of Removal: The Increasing Overlap of the Criminal Justice and Civil Immigration Systems" at a Yale Law School workshop on immigration theory and practice and criminal justice. Publications "Criminal Clinics in the Pursuit of Immigrant Rights: Lessons from the Loncheros," 2 UC Irvine Law Review 91 (2012). "Local Immigration Prosecution: A Study of Arizona Before SB 1070," 58 UCLA Law Review 1749 (2011). stEPHEn GaRdBauM MacArthur Foundation Professor of International Justice and Human Rights Professor Gardbaum was named a 2012 �
University Press), at Indiana University's Center for Constitutional Democracy in April and at the Comparative Constitutional Law Roundtable at George Washington University in March. Publications "The Place of Constitutional Law in the Legal System," in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law (Michel Rosenfeld and Andr�s Saj�, eds.). Oxford University Press (2012). david R. GinsBuRG Executive Director, Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property Law Program; Lecturer in Law David Ginsburg served on a panel for a live presentation by Academy Awardwinning director Andrew Stanton at the first cooperative Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference, sponsored by TED and the UCLA Anderson School of Management. caRolE E. GoldBERG Jonathan D. Varat Distinguished Professor of Law; Vice Chancellor, Academic Personnel Professor Goldberg testified in February before a special joint committee of the legislature of the state of Washington regarding a pending bill that would allow for tribes to retrocede state criminal and civil jurisdiction on reservations. During the 2011-12 academic
Professor Eagly spoke on "Criminal Courts and the Construction of the Criminal Alien" at a University of Chicago Law School conference on immigration and institutional design, held in June. She was a moderator
2013 fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice at New York University. He presented chapters from his forthcoming book, The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism (Cambridge
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year, she participated in a workgroup for the California Judicial Council that is producing a "cultural competency" curriculum for judges and other court personnel relating to Native Americans and tribes. Publications Captured Justice: Native Nations and Public Law 280 (with Duane Champagne). Carolina Academic Press (2012). "Searching for an Exit: The Indian Civil Rights Act and Public Law 280," (with Duane Champagne), in The Indian Civil Rights Act at Forty (Kristen A. Carpenter, Matthew L.M. Fletcher and Angela R. Riley, eds.). UCLA American Indian Studies Center Press (2012). lauRa E. G�MEz Professor of Law Professor G�mez was appointed by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) to the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program for 2012-13. She was named one of the top 100 Influentials by Hispanic Business magazine for her work and leadership in promoting the advancement of Hispanics in the United States. Professor G�mez presented "The Next Generation of Socio-legal Scholarship on Race and Racism: Connecting How We Operationalize `Race' to its Conceptualization as Social Construct" at the University of Toronto's Centre for
Criminology and Socio-legal Studies in April and at the University of Miami School of Law in February. Also in February, she presented "Law and Society in Socialist Cuba" during a research trip to Cuba, organized by California Lawyers for the Arts. Publications "Understanding Law and Race as Mutually Constitutive," 8 UCLA School of Law Journal of Scholarly Perspectives 47 (2012). PatRick d. GoodMan Lecturer in Law Publications Cracking the Case Method: Legal Analysis for Law School Success (with Paul Bergman and Thomas W. Holm). Vandeplas Publishing (2012). MaRk f. GRady Distinguished Professor of Law Professor Grady presented a chapter of his manuscript on "The Origins of Despotism" at a UCLA Department of Economics symposium in June. Publications "Causation and Foreseeability," in Research Handbook on the Economic Analysis of Torts (Jennifer H. Arlen, ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming, 2012).
MaRk GREEnBERG Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Philosophy Professor Greenberg presented "Morals and Plans" at the conference "Legality in Focus," sponsored by the University of Antwerp and held in Belgium in May. He gave the keynote address, "Law as Morality," at the UCLA Law and Philosophy Graduate Conference, sponsored jointly by UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Department of Philosophy in April. In March, he presented "Beyond the Standard Picture" as part of Harvard University's Philosophy and Law Speaker Series, and he discussed two papers, "How Facts Make Law" and "The Standard Picture and Its Discontents," at a Georgetown Law and Philosophy Seminar. Publications "The Implications of Incomplete Understanding and Error for Meta-Semantics," in New Essays in Meta-Semantics (Alexis G. Burgess and Brett Sherman, eds.). Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2012). "Law as a Case Study for Metaphysics," 1 Revista Peruana of Filosof�a del Derecho (Peruvian Journal of Legal Philosophy) (forthcoming, 2012). "Does How Facts Make Law Prove Too Much?," Direito, Estado, e Sociedade (forthcoming, 2012).
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"How Mistakes Excuse: Genuine Desert, Moral Desert, and Legal Desert," American Philosophical Association Newsletter (forthcoming, 2012). cHERyl HaRRis Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Publications "Undocumented Criminal Procedure," (with Devon W. Carbado), 8 UCLA School of Law Journal of Scholarly Perspectives 25 (2012). "Undocumented Criminal Procedure," (with Devon W. Carbado), 58 UCLA Law Review 1543-1616 (2011). sEan B. HEcHt Executive Director, UCLA Environmental Law Center Sean Hecht drafted and submitted an amicus brief supporting the winning side in the California Supreme Court case American Coatings Association v. South Coast Air Quality Management District, representing the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council. He was designated an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment (Working Group II � Impacts and Adaptation), and is serving on the AdaptLA Regional Stakeholder Working Group, a group convened by the City of Los Angeles to inform a city-led, science-based
and stakeholder-supported climate change adaptation planning process. Publications "Insurance," in The Law of Adaptation to Climate Change (Michael Gerrard and Katrina Kuh, eds.). ABA Publishing (2012). "Spending California's Cap-and-Trade Auction Revenue: Understanding the Sinclair Paint Risk Spectrum," (with Rhead Enion, Cara Horowitz and Ann Carlson) (March 2012). allison HoffMan Acting Professor of Law Professor Hoffman presented "The Affordable Care Act and Implications for LGBT Coverage" to the UCLA OUTlaw student group in February. She presented "The Role of Health Reform in Defining an American Right to Health," remotely, at a conference on "Comparative Views of Health Care Litigation and the Right to Health" at the Tel Aviv University Buchman Faculty of Law in January, and she presented "Seeking Consensus in a Polarized World: The Role of Dispute Resolution in Scaling up Deliberative Democracy" at the UCLA Law Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Colloquium. In November, Professor Hoffman presented "Insuring Long-Term Care: Redefining the Risks" at the University of Connecticut School of Law Symposium on healthcare reform, and in October she presented "The Changing
Regulation of Health Care Finance" at a conference on "The Future of Medicine: A Sociological Perspective," held in Ohio at The Heart Institute of Dayton. tHoMas w. HolM Director, Lawyering Skills Clinical Program; Lecturer in Law Professor Holm served on the panel, "Writing Problems: Reflections from the `Pros,'" at a Legal Writing Institute workshop at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in December. He presented "Translating Platitudes: Analytical Frameworks for New Practitioners" at the 2011 Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, hosted by the University of San Francisco Law School in June 2011. Publications Cracking the Case Method: Legal Analysis for Law School Success (with Paul Bergman and Patrick D. Goodman). Vandeplas Publishing (2012). caRa HoRowitz Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Executive Director, Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment Cara Horowitz testified before the California Senate Select Committee on the Economy, the Environment, and Climate Change on "Spending California's Cap-and-Trade Revenue: Understanding Legal Constraints" in Sacramento, in March.
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Publications "Spending California's Cap-and-Trade Auction Revenue: Understanding the Sinclair Paint Risk Spectrum," (with Rhead Enion, Sean Hecht and Ann Carlson) (March 2012). "Bright Roofs, Big City: Keeping L.A. Cool Through an Aggressive Cool-Roof Program," Pritzker Policy Brief No. 2 (October 2011). KRISTEN JACKSON Lecturer in Law Professor Jackson participated in two webinars, "Representing Juvenile Immigrants" for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in November and "Guardianship of the Undocumented Child" for the California State Bar Family Section Adoptions Committee in October. Publications "Special Status Seekers," 34 Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine 11 (2012). JERRY KANG Professor of Law; Professor of Asian American Studies (by courtesy); Korea Times--Hankook Ilbo Chair in Korean American Studies Professor Kang helped lead a consortium to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Sa-I-Gu and address its legacy. The event, "Confronting Sa-I-Gu: 20 Years After Koreatown Burned," was held in April in Los Angeles. In
November, he spoke on "Implicit Bias" as the inaugural speaker at the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Firms Diversity Speaker Series. He also presented "The Problem of Probabilistic Knowledge in the Law: The Case of Implicit Bias" as part of the UCLA Department of Statistics Speakers Series, and he presented "Implicit Bias in the Firm" at Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP in Chicago. In October, he was the keynote speaker on "Why Are You Here?" at the Korea Times College Fair, held in Anaheim, California. Publications Communications Law and Policy: Cases and Materials. 4th ed. Foundation Press (2012). "Bits of Bias," in Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law (Justin Levinson and Robert Smith, eds.). Cambridge University Press (2012). "The New Cultural Defense," in Ideology, Psychology, and Law (Jon Hanson, ed.). Oxford University Press (2011) (comment on Uhlmann et. al., "Automatic Associations: Personal Attitudes or Cultural Knowledge"). "Implicit Bias in the Courtroom," (with Judge Mark Bennett, Devon Carbado, Pam Casey, Nilanjana Dasgupta, David Faigman, Rachel Godsil, Anthony G. Greenwald, Justin Levinson and Jennifer Mnookin), 59 UCLA Law Review 1124 (2012). "The Missing Quadrants of Anti� discrimination: Going Beyond the `Prejudice
Polygraph,'" 68 Journal of Social Issues 314 (2012). "Self-Surveillance Privacy," (with Jeff Burke, Deborah Estrin, Mark Hansen and Katie Shilton), 97 Iowa Law Review 809 (2012). KENNETH L. KARST David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus Publications "Principles and Persons: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Raconteuse," 63 Hastings Law Journal 1197 (2012). SUNG HUI KIM Acting Professor of Law Publications "What Governmental Insider Trading Teaches Us About Corporate Insider Trading," in Insider Trading (Stephen M. Bainbridge, ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing (2012). "The Last Temptation of Congress: Legislator Insider Trading and the Fiduciary Norm Against Corruption," 98 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming, 2013). KENNETH N. KLEE Professor of Law Professor Klee took a six-month leave of absence from UCLA School of Law to
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represent Jefferson County, Alabama as the lead bankruptcy attorney in its Chapter 9 debt restructuring case, which is the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in United States history. He appeared as a commissioner at the initial public meeting of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission to Reform Chapter 11 in Washington, D.C. in April. In March, he was the invited speaker for the prestigious Cordell Hull Speakers Forum, sponsored by Samford University's Cumberland Law School in Birmingham, Alabama, where he presented "A Short History on Municipal Bankruptcy." Also in March, he participated in a webinar series sponsored by the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors called "Municipal Bankruptcy Part 2 � Financing." In February, he participated on a panel on "Valuation in Bankruptcy Cases: The Marketplace, the Courts, and the Eye of the Beholder" presented by the American College of Bankruptcy First Circuit Fellows and Boston College Law School. In January, he presented "Chapter 9 Municipal Bankruptcy" at the American College of Bankruptcy Ninth Circuit Fellows Annual Dinner, in Santa Monica, California. In December, he presented "Bankruptcy and the Supreme Court" at the 26th Annual Advanced Bankruptcy Seminar: Advanced Issues in Complex Times, in Oklahoma City. In November, he presented "Jefferson County, Alabama, Chapter 9 Update" and participated on a panel on "Ethical Issues in Bankruptcy" sponsored by the Central New York Bankruptcy Bar Association, in
Lake George, New York. Professor Klee participated in several panels from September 2011 through April 2012 addressing aspects of Stern v. Marshall, including panels sponsored by: the 2012 Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference; San Diego Bankruptcy Forum and Federal Bar Association; Central New York Bankruptcy Bar Association; 85th Annual National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges; Los Angeles Bar Association; Financial Lawyers Conference; Commercial Law League of America; ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee; and the Central District of California Bankruptcy Court Board of Judges Education Program. M�xiMo lanGER Professor of Law Professor Langer was awarded the 2012 De�k Prize by the American Society of International Law (ASIL) in April for his article, "The Diplomacy of Universal Jurisdiction: The Political Branches and the Transnational Prosecution of International Crimes," published in January 2011. He presented "The German Code of Crimes against International Law and the Principle of Participation and Accountability to the International Community" at a summer works-in-progress workshop at UCLA School of Law in July. He presented "The VStGB and the Domestic Prosecution of International Crimes--a Transatlantic Perspective" at the symposium 10 Jahre VStGB. Bilanz und Perspektiven eines ,,deutschen V�lkerstrafrechts" at the
University of Hamburg in May. He presented "The Archipelago and the Hub: Universal Jurisdiction and the International Criminal Court" at a lecture at the Aix-Marseille University School of Law and Political Science in May; at a transnational cyber-colloquium on international law in March; at a lecture series at Di Tella University School of Law in Buenos Aires, Argentina in December; and at the Public International Law and Legal Theory Workshop sponsored by the Washington University Law Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute in November. Professor Langer spoke on "Cooperation across legal systems: Problems of `match, diffusion and learning'" at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Exploratory Seminar on International Cooperation on Transnational Crime, held at Harvard University in April. He presented "Eficientismo vs. Garantismo Penal en las Reformas Procesales Penales Acusatorias Latinoamericanas" ("Efficiency vs. Due Process in the Latin American Adversarial Criminal Procedure Reforms") at CIDE (Center of Economic Research and Teaching) in Mexico City, Mexico in April and at Javeriana University School of Law in Bogota, Colombia in March. In October, he spoke on "Organizing Trial and Trial Process" at a conference of the International Criminal Procedure Expert Framework, sponsored by The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law in The Hague, the Netherlands and presented "Universal Jurisdiction versus the International Criminal Court" as part of the Office of the Prosecutor
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of the International Criminal Court Guest Lecture Series. Publications "The German Code of Crimes against International Law and the Principle of Participation and Accountability to the International Community," in 10 Jahre VStGB. Bilanz und Perspektiven eines ,,deutschen V�lkerstrafrechts" (Florian Jessberger, ed.). Nomos Publishers (forthcoming, 2013). "Rights in Connection with Criminal Process," (with Kent Roach), in Handbook on Constitutional Law (Mark Tushnet, Thomas Fleiner and Cheryl Saunders, eds.). Routledge (forthcoming, 2013). douGlas licHtMan Professor of Law Professor Lichtman presented "The Patent Playbook: Understanding the Patent War Between Apple, Google, and Samsung" at CLSA Technology Forums in Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo in June, in Ft. Lauderdale, New York and Philadelphia in May and in San Francisco in March. He spoke on "Patent Trends and Problems" during a presentation at the Sterling Partners Futures Retreat, in Baltimore, Maryland in May. In January, he spoke on "Anti-Piracy Today" as part of XBIZ LA.
Publications "Understanding the RAND Commitment," 8 UCLA Law Journal of Scholarly Perspectives 67 (2012). The Tech Patent Wars: What Every Investor Needs to Know, CLSA University Blue Book (April 26, 2012). "Retaliation as Patent Strategy," online as part of the Media Institute Intellectual Property Perspectives Series (June 12, 2012). "Is Lycos a Patent Troll?," online as part of the Media Institute Intellectual Property Perspectives Series (April 2, 2012). PEtER M. livEly Lecturer in Law Professor Lively was named as an attorney of the year by The Recorder for a case successfully challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). He presented at an MCLE panel for the Public Counsel Law Center on bankruptcy reaffirmation agreements in February. LYNN M. LOPUCKI Security Pacific Bank Distinguished Professor of Law Professor LoPucki is the principal investigator on grants from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Turnaround Management Association for operation of the UCLA-
LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database (with Joseph W. Doherty). He was the keynote speaker at the Turnaround Management Association Annual Meeting in November. He was a presenter, by teleconference, at the Regulatory Competition in Bankruptcy Law conference in Munich, Germany in June 2011. Publications Secured Credit: A Systems Approach (with Elizabeth Warren). 7th ed. Aspen Publishers (2012). Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach (with Elizabeth Warren, Daniel L. Keating and Ronald J. Mann). 5th ed. Aspen Publishers (2012). "The Future of Court System Transparency," in Confidentiality, Transparency and the U.S. Civil Justice System (Joseph W. Doherty, Robert T. Reville and Laura Zakaras, eds.). Oxford University Press (2012). "Optimizing English and American Security Interests," (with Arvin I. Abraham and Bernd P. Delahaye), 88 Notre Dame Law Review (forthcoming, 2012-13). TIMOTHY MALLOY Professor of Law Professor Malloy presented "Deploying Safer Alternatives Through Public Health Law" at the Public Health Law Research
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Annual Meeting, held in New Orleans in January and presented "Principled Prevention" at "Environmental Influences on Neurodevelopment: Translating the Emerging Science into Public Health Policy," sponsored by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in January. He provided testimony before the California State Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials at an oversight hearing on the Safer Consumer Products Informal Draft Regulations in December. In November, he presented at the 2011 Statewide Environmental Summit, held in San Diego, and he was a commentator on "Green Chemistry: Innovations for an Environmental and Economic Prosperity," an Oppenheim Lecture sponsored by the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He presented "Principled Prevention" at the Vermont Environmental Law Colloquium at Vermont Law School in September 2011. Publications
Sinsheimer, Ann Blake and Igor Linkov), Sustainable Technology and Policy Program (2011). JON D. MICHAELS Acting Professor of Law
III: Symposium on the Confrontation Clause" in November, and in October she spoke on "Knowing Where You Stand: Situated Knowledge and the `Science Question' in Forensic Science" at UC Davis. Publications
Professor Michaels spoke at Harvard Law School's "National and International Security Law Workshop" in February. In January, he spoke at the Stanford Law School conference on "The Right to Democracy in the Context of the Arab Spring." Publications "Semi-Legibility and Visual Evidence: An Initial "Private Military Firms, the American Precedent, and the Arab Spring," 48 Stanford Journal of International Law (forthcoming, 2012). JENNIFER L. MNOOKIN Vice Dean and Professor of Law Dean Moran was appointed by President Professor Mnookin spoke on "Science Obama to serve as a member of the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. She was named one of the "Top 100 Influential Hispanics" by PODER Hispanic Magazine. In June, Dean Moran was the keynote speaker at the Los Angeles County Bar Tax Section's Dana Latham Award Luncheon Honoring David Newman in Los Angeles. In May, she was a panelist at "Law and Reorder: Opportunities and Challenges in a Changing Legal Landscape," jointly sponsored by the Los Angeles County Exceptionalism and the Law of Evidence" at a PULSE workshop on science, law and evidence in June. She discussed "Evidentiary Issues in Latent Fingerprint Examination" at a workshop for FBI fingerprint examiners, held in Quantico, Virginia in April. In January, she was a presenter and moderator for "Forensic Science in The Courtroom," the 3rd Annual District Court Conference, held in the Virgin Islands. She was a panelist at Brooklyn Law School's "Crawford and Beyond Exploration," Law, Culture and the Humanities (forthcoming, 2012). RACHEL F. MORAN Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law "Implicit Bias in the Courtroom," (with Jerry Kang, Judge Mark Bennett, Devon Carbado, Pam Casey, Nilanjana Dasgupta, David Faigman, Rachel Godsil, Anthony Greenwald and Justin Levinson), 59 UCLA Law Review 1124 (2012).
"Soft Law and Nanotechnology: A Functional Perspective," 52 Jurimetrics (forthcoming, 2012). "Toxics in Consumer Products: California's Green Chemistry Regulations at a Crossroad," Pritzker Policy Brief No. 3 (January 2012). "Developing Regulatory Alternatives Analysis Methodologies for the California Green Chemistry Initiative," (with Peter J.
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Bar Association and the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Joint Task Force on Retention and Promotion of Women. Dean Moran gave the opening remarks at "Learning Curve: The Trajectory of Education Reform Litigation in California," which was co-hosted by UCLA Law and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in April. In March, Dean Moran was honored by the Latino Law Students' Association (LLSA) of Yale Law School for her distinguished record of public service and leadership. She presented "Clark Kerr and Me: The Future of the Public Law School" at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, was a participant at a bipartisan Affordable Care Act Moot Court event hosted by the California Endowment and was a special guest speaker at a UCLA Ziman Center real estate luncheon on "Tools for Leadership in Tumultuous Times." In January, Dean Moran discussed the benefits of public law schools in an interview on the "Champions of Justice" radio program, which was hosted by Thomas Girardi and aired on multiple radio stations. Dean Moran presented the opening remarks at the UCLA History Department's "Why History Matters" event on "The Power of the Presidency: The Past and Present of Executive Privilege" in November. She also served on the editorial board of the recently published Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education (James A. Banks, ed.) (Sage Reference 2012). Publications "Beyond the Loving Analogy: The Independent
Logic of Same-Sex Marriage," in Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage 242 (Kevin Noble Maillard and Rose Cuison Villazor, eds.). Cambridge (2012). "Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)," in 2 Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education 1030 (James A. Banks, ed.). Sage Reference (2012). foRREst s. MostEn Adjunct Professor of Law Professor Mosten conducted "Advanced Collaborative Training" in Calgary, Canada, in September. He spoke on "The Future of Family Peacemaking Practice" at the Federation of Law Societies' Family Law Program in Halifax, Canada, in July. He spoke on "Resolving Business and Personal Disputes" at the Motion Picture and Television Advisory Council in Beverly Hills, California, in May, and "Advanced Conflict Resolution Training" in Cleveland. He presented: "Master Class for Collaborative Professionals," with Pauline H. Tessler, in Pittsburg and St. Louis in January and June, respectively; "ThreeDay Basic Family Mediation Training" at the Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center in Los Angeles in February; and "Advanced Training in Conflict Resolution" in Dublin, Ireland, and "Advanced Negotiation Strategies" in London in April. He presented "Confidentiality in Mediation" for the South Bay Bar Association in Torrance, California, in March. He spoke on "Advanced Family
Mediation Strategies for Difficult Issues and High Conflict Parties" for Family Mediation in Ottawa, Canada, in February. He gave the keynote address on "Dispute Resolution in Businesses" for the American Society of Training and Development and spoke on "Advanced Conflict Resolution Strategies" for the American Institute of Mediation, both in Los Angeles, in January. He was a keynote speaker on "The Future of Mediation" for the Southern California Mediation Association in Malibu, California, and "Hot Trends in Mediation" for the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators in Somerset, New Jersey, both in November. He gave three presentations in October: "25 Wild and Crazy Ideas for Breaking Impasse" at the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals in San Francisco; "Advanced Interest Based Negotiation" on behalf of the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association at the Fifth Annual Collaborative Family Law Basic Training program in Los Angeles; and "The Journey Beyond Mediation Toward Peacemaking," at the Annual Conference of the Association for Conflict Resolution in San Diego. He gave a keynote address on "Hot Trends in Mediation" at the Indiana Association of Mediators in Indianapolis, in September 2011. Publications "Major Trends in Lawyering � and Predictions for Changes in the Next 50 Years," (with John Lande), Family Court Review, 50th Anniversary Issue (forthcoming, 2012).
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"Future Trends in Unbundling Legal Services," ABA Family Advocate (forthcoming, 2012). "Mediation in 2030: Twenty Predictions," Advocate: Journal of Consumer Attorneys Associations for Southern California (forthcoming, 2012). "Representing Your Clients in Mediation," Los Angeles County Bar Association, Family Law Section Symposium (forthcoming, 2012). HIROSHI MOTOMURA Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law Professor Motomura was the principal drafter of a letter, sent to President Obama in May, on administrative relief for DREAM Act beneficiaries. He spoke on "Designing Temporary Worker Programs" at a University of Chicago Law School conference on immigration and institutional design, held in June. In April, he gave a lecture on immigration policy at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He traveled to Japan in March to give lectures and workshops on U.S. immigration law at Waseda University in Tokyo and Kagawa University in Takamatsu as part of a comparative U.S.�Japan immigration law and policy project, funded by the Japanese government. He presented chapters from his book in progress, Immigration Outside the Law, at faculty colloquia at the law schools at Duke University, the University of North Carolina� Chapel Hill and Fordham University in April,
at Brigham Young University in March and at Lewis & Clark Law School in October. The ideas from his book were explored at the Lewis & Clark forum, "New Landscapes in Legalization: An Interdisciplinary Exploration." He spoke on immigration policy as part of the Understanding the Supreme Court Speaker Series, held at the Pasadena Senior Center in February, at the ACLU Northwest Civil Liberties Conference, the ACLU of Southern California and at Sinai Temple in October and at UCLA School of Law in September 2011. He participated in a roundtable on the "Intersection of Immigration and Employment Law" at the Sixth Annual Labor and Employment Law Colloquium, held at Loyola Law School in September 2011. Publications Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (with T. Alexander Aleinikoff, David A. Martin and Maryellen Fullerton). 7th ed. Thompson West (2012). "Who Belongs?: Immigration Outside the Law and the Idea of Americans in Waiting," 2 UC Irvine Law Review 359 (2012). "The Discretion That Matters: Federal Immigration Enforcement, State and Local Arrests, and the Civil�Criminal Line," 58 UCLA Law Review 1819 (2011).
STEPHEN R. MUNZER Distinguished Professor of Law Professor Munzer was elected to the Ethikon Institute's Board of Trustees and chosen as president of the Dominican Lay Scholars Community in Los Angeles, both effective January 1. He presented "Corrective Justice and Traditional Knowledge" and "Penner on Locke, Equality and the Consent to Value Money" at the Property Theory Colloquium, held at George Mason University School of Law in July. He presented "Corrective Justice and Remedies" at the University of San Diego Law and Philosophy Conference and lectured on "Property and Disagreement" at both University College London and Oxford University in May. He presented "Purity of Heart" at the American Academy of Religion (Western Region) in March. Publications "Corrective Justice and Intellectual Property Rights in Traditional Knowledge," in New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property (Annabelle Lever, ed.). Cambridge University Press (2012). "Risk and Reward in Stem Cell Products: A New Model for Stem Cell Product Liability," 18 Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law 102 (2012). "A Bundle Theorist Holds on to His Collection of Sticks," 8 Econ Journal Watch 265 (September 2011).
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JYOTI NANDA Lecturer in Law Professor Nanda was awarded the 2012 Dream of Los Angeles Award by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as part of the City of Los Angeles Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month in May. She completed, with UCLA Law students, the Juvenile Justice Project manual, which informs youth and families who interact with the Juvenile Justice System of their legal rights and resources. NEIL W. NETANEL Pete Kameron Professor of Law Professor Netanel taught Intellectual Property in Perspective at Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law in February and March. He presented a lecture on the Israeli Supreme Court for the "Israel in 3D" conference, sponsored by the UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in January. He gave the public lecture "From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print" at a co-sponsored UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and UCLA School of Law event in November. In October, he presented a lecture on "International Intellectual Property and the Internet" at the University of St. Gallen visiting program in Austin, Texas. He gave an invited presentation on "Foreign Influences on Jewish Copyright Law" at the "Conference on Intellectual Property in Jewish Law" in Jerusalem in June 2011.
FRANCES ELISABETH OLSEN Professor of Law Professor Olsen spent this past winter break presenting some 25 hours of lectures on theoretical and practical aspects of international human rights law at Addis Ababa University, which recently instituted a cross-disciplinary Ph.D. program in human rights--the first in Ethiopia. She also made a three-day stop in neighboring Tanzania to follow up on an extensive interview she had conducted the year before with Pete O'Neal, America's Black Panther in exile. She served on the panel, International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, as part of the international human rights conference, "Toward Europe, Toward Equality," which was sponsored by the Government of Montenegro and held in Danilovgrad, Montenegro, in September 2011. One of Professor Olsen's articles was listed among the most-cited law review articles of all time in "The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time," 110 Michigan Law Review 1483 (June 2012). KAL RAUSTIALA Professor, UCLA School of Law and UCLA International Institute; Director, UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations Professor Raustiala co-chaired the inaugural American Society of International Law (ASIL) Research Forum, held at UCLA School of Law in November as part of the ASIL mid-
year meeting. He presented "The Knockoff Economy" at the Washington University School of Law in October and "Density and Fragmentation in International Institutions" at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, held in Seattle in September 2011. Publications The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (with Christopher Sprigman). Oxford University Press (2012). ANGELA RILEY Professor of Law; Director, UCLA American Indian Studies Center Professor Riley was a presenter at "The Significance of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples," a conference in April with UN Special Rapporteur S. James Anaya on the rights of indigenous peoples. She participated in the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy 10th Anniversary Symposium at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law, held in Tucson in October. Also in October, she presented "American Indian History and Sovereignty" at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. Publications The Indian Civil Rights Act at Forty (with Kristen A. Carpenter and Matthew L.M. Fletcher). UCLA American Indian Studies Center Press (2012).
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"Indians and Guns," 100 Georgetown Law Journal 1675 (2012). ROBERT BRADLEY SEARS Assistant Dean; Executive Director, Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy; Adjunct Professor of Law
SEANA SHIFFRIN Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice; Professor of Philosophy Publications "Are Contracts Promises?" in Routledge
KIRK J. STARK Vice Dean and Professor of Law Professor Stark presented "Federal Tax Reform & the Deduction for State and Local Taxes" at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law's Institute for the Study of New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) in June. In March, he presented "Bribing the States to Tax Food" at a Duke Law School Tax Policy Workshop and at a faculty workshop at Ohio State Moritz College of Law. Professor Stark was the keynote speaker on "The Federal Role in State & Local Taxation: Rethinking Washington's Volatility Bias" at the Portland Tax Forum in February and he gave the opening remarks at the Third Annual Transactional LawMeet�Western Regionals, held at UCLA School of Law. He also was an organizer and moderator and presented "Federal Tax Reform and the Deduction for State and Local Taxes" at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center/UCLA Tax Policy Conference "Federal Tax Reform Beyond the Beltway: How Federal Tax Reform and Tax Policy Will Affect State and Local Governments," held at UCLA Law. In November, he presented "Bribing the States to Tax Food" at the annual meeting of the National Tax Association in New Orleans, Louisiana. Professor Stark was a panel organizer at the First Annual NYU-UCLA Tax Policy Conference "Tax Law and Health Care Reform," hosted by UCLA Law in October. He gave the introductory remarks at a China Law Association Conference at UCLA Law
Professor Sears received an inaugural (2012) Alexander D. Forger Award for Sustained Excellence in HIV Legal Services from the American Bar Association. He was also included on Out Magazine's "Power List" of powerful LGBT people. Publications "An Evaluation of Local Laws Requiring Government Contractors to Adopt LGBTRelated Workplace Policies," (with Christy Mallory), 5 Albany Government Law Review (forthcoming, 2012). "Evidence of Persistent and Pervasive Workplace Discrimination Against LGBT People: The Need For Federal Legislation Prohibiting Discrimination and Providing for Equal Employment Benefits," (with Jennifer C. Pizer, Christy Mallory and Nan D. Hunter), 45 Loyola Law Review 715 (2012). "HIV Discrimination in Dental Care: Results of a Testing Study in Los Angeles County," (with Christian Cooper, Fariba S. Younai and Tom Donohoe), 45 Loyola Law Review 909 (2012).
Companion to Philosophy of Law (Andrei Marmor, ed.). Routledge (2012). "Immoral, Conflicting and Redundant Promises," in Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon (R. Jay Wallace, Rahul Kumar and Samuel Freeman, eds.). Oxford University Press (2011). "A Thinker-Based Approach to Freedom of Speech," 27 Constitutional Commentary 283307 (2011). TIMOTHY SPANGLER Adjunct Professor of Law Professor Spangler was appointed as a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Laws at University College London in the fall, and he gave a guest lecture, "One Step Ahead � Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds After the Global Financial Crisis," at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law in October. Publications The Law of Private Investment Funds. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press (2012).
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RICHARD STEINBERG
LARA STEMPLE
KATHERINE STONE
and was a commentator at a Loyola tax policy workshop, also in October. Publications "Beyond Bailouts: Federal Tools for Preventing State Budget Crises," (with Brian Galle), 87 Indiana Law Journal 599 (2012). "A Brief Overview of Local Property Taxation in the United States--with an Emphasis on Four Significant Features," Shanghai, China (2011) (translated into Chinese). RICHARD H. STEINBERG Professor of Law; Director, Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project Professor Steinberg presented "Politics and International Justice" as an invited guest lecturer at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands in May. He spoke on "Compliance and Institutional Design" at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Research Forum, held in November at UCLA Law as part of ASIL's mid-year meeting. Publications "Wanted--Dead or Alive: Realist Theory in International Law," in International Law and International Relations: Taking Stock (Jeff Dunoff and Mark Pollack, eds.). Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2012). "International Trade Law as a Mechanism for State Transformation," in Power in the
Contemporary Era (Judith Goldstein and Martha Finnemore, eds.). Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2012). LARA STEMPLE Director of Graduate Studies; Director, Health and Human Rights Law Project Professor Stemple participated in Global Health Awareness Week 2012, speaking on "Health, Gender & Human Rights: Global Concepts & Local Challenges" at the UCLA/ David Geffen School of Medicine in March. Publications "Human Rights, Sex, and Gender: Limits in Theory and Practice," 3 Pace Law Review 31 (2012). KATHERINE STONE Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Professor of Law Professor Stone spoke on "Protecting Labor Standards in the Global Economy: Three Strands Can Make a Rope, a Braid, or even a Lifeline for the Middle Class" at the "Conference on Global Governance: Critical Perspectives," held at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in June. In May, she presented "The Decline in the Standard Employment Contract: Evidence from 10 OECD Countries" at Pompeu Fabra University School of Law in Barcelona, Spain and "A Right to Work in the United States" at the "Conference on the Right to Work:
Legal and Philosophical Perspectives," held at the University College London Institute of Human Rights in London, England. She presented "The State of Industrial Relations in the United States: The Aftermath of Industrial Pluralism" at "The Future of Labour Law," sponsored by the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work and held at the University of Montreal in December. In September 2011, she presented: "Flexibilization and Its Discontents: The State of Industrial Relations in the United States" at Tilburg University Law School in the Netherlands; "Local Organizing To Address Global Threats" at the Annual Labor and Employment Symposium, held in Los Angeles; "Knowledge Workers and Workers' Knowledge: Comment on Catherine Fisk's Working Knowledge" at a USC Law and Humanities Workshop; and "Class Actions and Arbitration in the 2011 Supreme Court" at UCLA Law's "Whither the Court" event. Publications After the Standard Employment Contract: Innovations in Regulatory Design (with Harry Arthurs). Russell Sage Press (forthcoming, 2013). "The Transformation of Employment Regimes: A World-Wide Challenge," in After the Standard Employment Contract: Innovations in Regulatory Design (Katherine V.W. Stone and Harry Arthurs, eds.). Russell Sage Press (forthcoming, 2013).
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JONATHAN VARAT
EUGENE VOLOKH
"Comparative Empirical Evidence on the Decline of the Standard Employment Contract," in After the Standard Employment Contract: Innovations in Regulatory Design (Katherine V.W. Stone and Harry Arthurs, eds.). Russell Sage Press (forthcoming, 2013). "The Decline of the Standard Contract of Employment in the United States: A Socio-Regulatory Perspective," in After the Standard Employment Contract: Innovations in Regulatory Design (Katherine V.W. Stone and Harry Arthurs, eds.). Russell Sage Press (forthcoming, 2013). ALEXANDER STREMITZER Acting Professor of Law Professor Stremitzer was a presenter at the American Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting, held at Stanford Law School in May, and he was a speaker at the UCLA Anderson School of Management Strategy Seminar Series. In April, he presented at the NYU School of Law Law and Economics Colloquium. He spoke at a University of Virginia Law School Law and Economics Workshop in November, and at the Conference of Empirical Legal Studies, held in Chicago. He was a presenter at the European Association of Law and Economics Annual Meeting, held in Hamburg, Germany in September 2011. Publications "On and Off Contract Remedies Inducing
Cooperative Investments," (with Richard R. W. Brooks), Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 396 (2009). American Law and Economics Review (forthcoming). "Opportunistic Termination," 28 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (forthcoming, 2012). "Standard Breach Remedies, Quality Thresholds, and Cooperative Investments," 28 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 337-359 (2012). "Framing Contracts: Why Loss Framing Increases Effort," (with Richard R.W. Brooks and Stephan Tontrup), 168 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 62-82 (2012). Comment: "The Measure of a MAC: A Machine-Learning Protocol for Analyzing Force Majeure Clauses in M&A Agreements," 168 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 206-08 (2012).
JONATHAN D. VARAT Professor of Law Professor Varat was cited in the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in United States v. Alvarez, which was decided in June. EUGENE VOLOKH Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law Professor Volokh was cited in the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in United States v. Alvarez, which was decided in June. Two of his articles were cited in a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decision in ACLU v. Alvarez, and he was also cited in a Michigan Court of Appeals opinion in People of the State of Michigan v. Dean Scott Yanna. His blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, was named a top 100 legal blog for 2011 by the editors of the ABA Journal in the publication's fifth annual "Blawg 100." Publications "Private Employees' Speech and Political
"Beyond Ex Post Expediency--An Ex Ante View of Rescission," (with Richard R.W. Brooks), 68 Washington and Lee Law Review 1171-83 (2011).
Activity: Statutory Protections Against Employer Retaliation," 16 Texas Review of Law & Politics 295 (2012). "Freedom for the Press as an Industry,
"Remedies On and Off Contract," (with Richard R.W. Brooks), 120 Yale Law Journal 690-727 (2011).
or for the Press as a Technology? � From the Framing to Today," 160 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 459 (2012).
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WILLIAM D. WARREN Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
PAVEL WONSOWICZ Lecturer in Law Professor Wonsowicz received the 2012 Rutter
JONATHAN M. ZASLOFF Professor of Law Professor Zasloff was a speaker at the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and the UCLA Lewis Center/Luskin School of Public Affairs conference on "California's Urbanscape: A New Paradigm for Redevelopment in the 21st Century" in February. Publications "Why No Parliaments in the United States?" 43 Rutgers Law Journal (forthcoming, 2012). NOAH D. ZATZ Professor of Law Professor Zatz co-organized the Sixth Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law, which was co-hosted by Loyola and Southwestern law schools in September 2011. Publications "Introduction: Working Group on the Future of Systemic Disparate Treatment Law," 32 Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law 387 (2012). "Poverty Unmodified?: Critical Reflections on the Deserving/Undeserving Distinction," 59 UCLA Law Review 550 (2012).
Publications Bankruptcy (with Daniel J. Bussel and David A. Skeel, Jr.). 9 ed. Foundation Press (2012).
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Award for Excellence in Teaching in April. He presented "Teaching to Different Learning Styles" at the Association of American Law Schools conference in Washington, D.C. in January, and was the keynote speaker on "A Narrative of Academic Support" at the Law School Admissions Council Academic Support Conference, held at Western State College of Law. Publications Evidence: Context and Practice. Carolina Academic Press (2012). STEPHEN C. YEAZELL David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Distinguished Professor of Law Publications Civil Procedure. 8th ed. Aspen Publishers (2012). "Transparency for Civil Settlements: NASDAQ for Lawsuits?" in Confidentiality, Transparency, and the U.S. Civil Justice System (Joseph W. Doherty, Robert T. Reville and Laura Zakaras, eds.). Oxford University Press (2012).
ADAM WINKLER Professor of Law Professor Winkler presented "Concealed Carry: The Next Supreme Court Battle" at the Fordham University School of Law in March. He spoke on "The Surprising Roots of Citizens United" at a Fix Our America event in February. He was a moderator for a conversation between Judges Stephen Reinhardt and Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on "Perspectives on Federalism," sponsored by the American Constitution Society in January. He presented "Is Obamacare Unconstitutional?" at the Health Care Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association in October and "The Supreme Court, 2010 Term in Perspective" at the California State Bar Annual Meeting in September 2011. Publications Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America. W.W. Norton (2011).
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"Supporting Workers by Accounting for Care," 8 UCLA School of Law Journal of Scholarly Perspectives 89 (2012). ERIC ZOLT Michael H. Schill Distinguished Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy Publications "Inequality and the Evolution of Taxation," (with Kenneth L. Sokoloff), in Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions (Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Solokoff, eds.). National Bureau of Economic Research and Cambridge University Press (2011). "Tax Deductions for Charitable Contributions: Domestic Activities, Foreign Activities, or None of the Above," 63 Hastings Law Journal 361 (2012).
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UCLA Law alumni Jacqueline Nguyen '91 and Paul Watford '94 join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jacqueline Nguyen '91 and Paul Watford '94 were confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the nation's largest federal appeals court. With combined experience that spans from Supreme Court clerkships and private practice to the U.S. Attorney's Office and California's Superior Court, Judges Nguyen and Watford are continuing UCLA Law's long tradition of alumni distinction. UCLA School of Law now has a total of six graduates who are judges on the Ninth Circuit, the largest number of graduates from any institution serving on the court. Jacqueline Nguyen and Paul Watford join the law school's incumbent members: Alex Kozinski '75, Sanda Segal Ikuta '88, Dorothy Nelson '53 and Kim McLane Wardlaw '79. Jacqueline Nguyen was nominated by President Obama in September 2011 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 7, 2012. She is the first Vietnamese-American federal judge and the first Asian-Pacific American female United States circuit judge in the nation. Since 2009, she served as a United States District Judge in the Central District of California in Los Angeles. Previously, she was a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court--the first Vietnamese-American woman ever appointed to the court. She joined the United States Attorney's Office in the Central District of California in 1995, serving as an assistant United States attorney in the criminal division and as deputy chief of the general crimes section. She began her career in private practice at Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP, where she specialized in civil litigation as a litigation associate
and focused on commercial disputes, intellectual property and construction-defect cases. She earned an A.B. degree in English from Occidental College in 1987 and her J.D. from UCLA Law in 1991. Judge Nguyen helped found and was president of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association and was a board member of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles. Paul Watford was nominated by President Obama in October 2011 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 21, 2012. He is the fourth African American on the Ninth Circuit court. Judge Watford was previously an appellate litigation partner at the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles, California, where he had worked since 2001. He became a partner in 2003, and his practice focused on appellate litigation in state and federal courts and on a variety of legal issues in most major areas of the law. Before that, he served as an assistant United States attorney for the Central District of California, where he prosecuted a wide range of federal criminal cases, including complex white-collar criminal cases as a member of the major frauds section. After graduating from UCLA Law in 1994, he clerked for Judge Kozinski on the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. He received his bachelor of arts degree from UC Berkeley in 1989. At UCLA Law, he served as an editor of the UCLA Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. Judges Nguyen and Watford discuss their career paths and reflect on their time at UCLA Law in the following Q&A.
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UCLA LAw: What led you to choose a career in the law? Paul Watford: I initially considered pursuing a career in education before deciding to attend law school. I thought obtaining a law degree would broaden my horizons and provide a greater range of professional options going forward. UCLA LAw: Have you always aspired to be a judge? Jacqueline Nguyen: I have not always aspired to be a judge. When I was in the U.S. Attorney's Office, many people told me that I had the right temperament and experience to be on the bench. After a while, the idea took hold and I decided to apply to the Los Angeles Superior Court. UCLA LAw: What do you see as the primary benefit(s) of a UCLA Law education? Paul Watford: I loved attending law school at UCLA. The law school community was incredibly supportive and close knit; it was nothing like the cut-throat environment I had heard about at other schools. The professors were focused not just on producing first-rate scholarship, which they did, but also on being outstanding (and accessible) classroom teachers. I learned later, after comparing notes with graduates of other law schools, that that's not always the case. UCLA LAw: What are you most looking forward to about being on the Ninth Circuit? Jacqueline Nguyen: I have always enjoyed new challenges. The large size of the docket and the importance and complexity of the cases will certainly present tremendous challenges. I have
been a trial judge, a lone wolf in terms of making decisions, for Professor Bainbridge a very long time, so working with a panel will be a big change. currently serves on the The judges on the court have been very welcoming, and I look forward to serving with them for many years to come. Editorial Advisory Board UCLA LAw: What would you cite as your best of the Journal of Marexperience(s) at UCLA Law? kets and Morality andas Paul Watford: I can't single out any handful of experiences being the best I had at UCLA. For me, the best experience the Executive Commitwas simply being admitted to such a fine law school. UCLA had a strong commitment to admitting a class that tee of the Federalist Soreflected California's racial and ethnic diversity. I was the beneficiary of that admissions policy and I've been gratefulSeever ciety's Corporations, since for the opportunity it provided me. curities & Antitrust PracUCLA LAw: What, in your opinion, makes the tice Group. UCLA Law community so strong? Jacqueline Nguyen: UCLA Law provides a nurturing, supportive learning environment, with rich opportunities for its students. It has a talented, diverse student body that further enriches the learning environment. There's a lot of school pride and loyalty, and that helps strengthen the UCLA Law community. UCLA LAw: In what ways do you feel like your educational experience at UCLA Law helped prepare you for your career? Jacqueline Nguyen: I received a top notch and affordable legal education. Just as important, though, I formed lifelong friendships and met my husband there.
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UCLA Law's centers and programs produce path-breaking research and purposeful reform
"UCLA Law's unrivalled expertise in real-world problem solving extends from the cutting-edge research of our centers and programs, to the deep commitment of our faculty members, who are the mainstay of UCLA Law's high-quality legal education programs, and to the engagement of our students, who choose to study at UCLA Law because they desire to get involved and make a difference," says Dean Rachel F. Moran. "Our centers and programs are thought leaders and `first movers.'" Under the leadership of esteemed scholars and practitioners, the law school's centers and programs are tackling the most pressing issues of our time. From questions related to sexual orientation and climate change to the intersection of race and law, from business and taxation to the representation of underserved communities, UCLA Law is producing key findings that are being used to strengthen legislation and improve peoples' lives.
UCLA School of Law has always pursued a distinctive approach to achieving impact at the local, state, national and even international level. At UCLA Law, the mastery of doctrine, skills and theory serves as the foundation for transformative influence through advocacy and service. These priorities are reinforced through the work of the law school's more than 20 interdisciplinary centers of excellence, which are shaping law and policy and carving an extraordinary path toward lasting change.
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Transforming research inTo resulTs
UCLA School of Law has always emphasized progressive interdisciplinary research. From the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy, established last year, to the Critical Race Studies Program, the only one of its kind in the nation, to the Globalization and Labor Standards (GALS) database, which looks at fair labor standards worldwide, and the seminal Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, UCLA Law has garnered an international reputation for innovative and impactful scholarship. "Our influence extends outside of the academy and enables us to inform policy discussions and public understanding of the law," Dean Moran says. "UCLA Law's research centers are not simply academic leaders. In many cases their path-breaking work is actually defining the agenda for legislative reform." Informing and enriching difficult policy questions is the purview of researchers at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, which supports legal scholarship, research, policy analysis and education regarding sexual orientation discrimination and other legal issues that affect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. The only think tank of its kind dedicated to the field, the Williams Institute was founded more than a decade ago with the largest donation ever given to an academic institution in support of an LGBT research-based program. Since its inception, the institute has published multiple studies and economic impact reports on topics including the U.S. census and LGBT demographics, marriage and couples' rights, workplace discrimination and same sex couples and immigration. "Our work at the Williams Institute plays a role in helping policymakers craft effective public policy," says Brad Sears, UCLA Law assistant dean and executive director of the Williams Institute. "Their decisions require the data and cogent analysis that our specialists on sexual orientation and gender identity law and policy are producing." It is critical work that is replicated across disciplines, says Andrew Kaufman, professor from practice and executive director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy. Kaufman, a former senior transactional partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, comes out of the very world of practice that the Lowell Milken Institute helps to shape. Established in 2011 with an unprecedented $10 million gift from Lowell
Professor Eric Zolt (third from left) participates as a panelist at the NYU-UCLA Tax Policy Conference. Milken '73, a leading philanthropist and pioneer in education reform, the Lowell Milken Institute is one of the premier programs of its kind, treating law as an integral part of an entrepreneurial economy. From the outset, the institute announced itself as a major player at the intersection of business law and policy, hosting events like the NYU-UCLA Tax Policy Conference. The inaugural conference, held in October 2011, addressed the history and politics of both taxation and the U.S. health care system, the ramifications of "Obamacare," questions of tax alternatives to fund health care reform and the long-term fiscal outlook for health care policy. "The Lowell Milken Institute collaborates with practitioners and policymakers to develop innovative ways to address complex business law and policy issues," notes Kaufman. "The tax policy conference is just one forum for top scholars to share ideas about how to address challenges on the horizon." A focus on the future is also at the core of the work of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment. The country's first law school center focused exclusively on climate change, the Emmett Center serves as a vital resource for
"Our influence extends outside of the academy and enables us to inform policy discussions and public understanding of the law."
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Williams Institute Director Brad Sears (fourth from left) testifying at Congressional hearing on Employment Non-Discrimination Act. advancing law and policy solutions to the climate crisis. "Our environmental law faculty works across disciplines and crossinstitutionally to develop and promote research and policy tools that decision-makers can use to address environmental challenges on a local, national and global level," says Professor Ann Carlson, faculty director of the Emmett Center and an authority on climate change law and policy. The Emmett Center's Pritzker Environmental Law and Policy Briefs, a paper series that provides expert analysis to further public dialogue on environmental issues, are a prime example. Recent briefs have covered everything from green chemistry regulations to the regulation of groundwater to a cool-roof program for Los Angeles. Additional Emmett Center reports have focused on California's cap-and-trade program, clean energy and increasing investment in public transportation.
ongoing research, documented the presence of workplace discrimination against LGBT Americans and offered compelling evidence in support of ENDA's passage. "Decades of social science research have demonstrated that employment discrimination against LGBT employees occurs across the country and evidence suggests that a federal prohibition on such conduct would reduce discrimination," she testified. Williams Institute faculty members and researchers frequently share their opinions. In July 2011, a group including Brad Sears, M.V. Lee Badgett, Ilan Meyer, Gary Gates, Nan Hunter and Jennifer Pizer, provided written testimony on Senate Bill 598 (The Respect for Marriage Act) to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Their assessment of the implications of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) for American families included important findings from Williams Institute research about same-sex couples and the serious financial, legal, social and health consequences of DOMA for them and their families. The Williams Institute is not alone in providing opinionshaping testimony. In March, Cara Horowitz, the Emmett Center's Andrew Sabin Family Foundation executive director, testified before the California Senate Select Committee on the Economy, Environment and Climate Change on California's climate regulations. She also testified on the topic before the
reaching a Broad audience
The production of singular research is just one component of UCLA Law's leadership in affecting policy at home and abroad. Another aspect is the frequent testimony by the law school's renowned subject matter experts. Dedicated to the task of using their knowledge in service of the greater community, UCLA Law's esteemed scholars--many at the pinnacle of their fields--weigh in on the full spectrum of policy challenges and participate at the highest levels of debate. Their testimony before legislatures is a way for their work to reach a broader audience and provide support for the creation of better laws. In June, Williams Institute Research Director M. V. Lee Badgett appeared before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to discuss Senate Bill 811, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). Her testimony, based on Williams Institute-sponsored and other
"Our environmental law faculty works across disciplines and crossinstitutionally to develop and promote research and policy tools that decision-makers can use to address environmental challenges on a local, national and global level."
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California Air Resources Board in August 2011. Her colleague, Professor Timothy Malloy, who is the faculty director of the UCLA Sustainable Technology and Policy Program, an interdisciplinary collaboration between UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, provided testimony on green chemistry regulations in December. He offered an essential perspective on the Safer Consumer Products Informal Draft Regulations for the California State Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials.
Rebel on the Run
impacT Beyond The classroom
UCLA Law has always enjoyed a reputation as a place where dynamic and engaged professors focus their prodigious talents on creating an unrivaled educational experience. Yet, as an extension of the work of the law school's centers and program, faculty members are equally committed to achieving impact beyond the classroom. "Our faculty members are among the nation's most eminent authorities across a wide range of legal areas," Dean Moran says. It's not simply that their ideas and opinions are in high demand, she observes; by virtue of their intellect and expertise, they are also strengthening the fabric of civic life. This year, Hiroshi Motomura, Susan Westerberg Prager professor of law, was the principal drafter of a letter to President Obama that highlighted several measures the President could take, under existing laws, to end the threat of deportation for students who might benefit from the DREAM Act. Signed by 89 immigration law professors from around the country, the letter provided President Obama with a compelling argument that it was within his authority to issue a reprieve for large groups of illegal immigrants. Just two weeks later, President
UCLA Law students locate compound of Congolese militia leader wanted by the ICC
When a group of students from the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project accompanied Professor Richard Steinberg on a trip to the Democratic Republic of the
Congo this past spring, they never imagined their work would involve tracking one of Africa's most notorious the group unexpectedly spotted Bosco Ntaganda, warlords. Engaged in field research in the Eastern Congo, also known as "the Terminator," who is wanted by the and has long evaded capture.
International Criminal Court (ICC) on war crimes charges While working in the town of Goma, Steinberg and his
students saw Ntaganda traveling on a major thoroughfare in a convoy armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, a mounted heavy caliber machine gun and soldiers wielding automatic weapons. The UCLA Law
group ultimately located his compound about 100 yards clandestine video to document their discovery.
from the Rwandan border. They then proceeded to obtain Professor Steinberg noted that their ability to home in
on the warlord's base of operations so easily showed that "Ntaganda was living with impunity, and he did so while enriching himself through conflict minerals trade, injustices that continue to destabilize the Eastern Congo. If and locate his compound, then the Congolese governhad surely located him as well."
our group from UCLA Law could stumble upon Ntaganda ment and the intelligence services of Western countries The video obtained by the group was circulated widely
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shortly there-
Professor Gary Blasi speaks at a press conference held when Valentini v. Shinseki was filed.
after, the Congolese government moved in on the compound and Ntaganda fled to the countryside, where he government forces. and his militia are being actively pursued by Congolese
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Professor Carole Goldberg (third from left) accompanies students from the Tribal Legal Development Clinic on a research trip to the Grand Canyon. Obama announced his decision to halt the deportation for as many as 800,000 younger illegal immigrants. Carole Goldberg, Jonathan D. Varat distinguished professor of law, who is also a justice of the Hualapai Court of Appeals of the Hualapai Tribe in Arizona, has participated in recent work in service to the President. Appointed by President Obama to the Indian Law and Order Commission, the goal of which is to improve public safety on Indian lands, she traveled to reservations around the country this year to conduct field hearings. Her findings will be used in a report that will go to the President and to the Congress. Additional recent faculty initiatives with far-reaching implications include the work of Professor Gary Blasi, a nationally recognized resource in public interest law. Professor Blasi serves as co-counsel in Valentini v. Shinseki, a federal class action suit against the Veterans Administration for failing to accommodate veterans with severe mental disabilities. Stuart Biegel, who simultaneously teaches at UCLA Law and in the Graduate School of Education and Communication Studies, provided a critical perspective to panels like the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, whose members solicited his testimony addressing policy options and possible legislative initiatives in the area of peer violence and bullying at the K-12 level nationwide. And, the work of constitutional law experts Professors Eugene Volokh and Adam Winkler, on issues such as gun control, continues to be widely cited, including by the U.S. Supreme Court. The common thread, says Dean Moran, is that "Our faculty members are not content to sit on the periphery. Rather, they consistently demonstrate an unflagging commitment to rolling up their sleeves and working for the public good." Professors Jennifer Mnookin and Jerry Kang, co-directors of UCLA Law's Program on Understanding Law, Science and Evidence (PULSE), also exemplify this shared passion for
service. In the past year alone, Professor Mnookin has served on two government-sponsored blue ribbon commissions. As a member of a National Institute of Justice/National Institute of Standards and Technology working group, she offered her expertise on human factors in fingerprint identification; as an advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, she collaborated with an interagency working group on research issues in forensic science. Professor Jerry Kang, working on educating judges on implicit bias in the courtroom, gave a series of talks on the topic at judicial conferences, including most recently at the United States District Court, Northern District of California federal judicial conference, held in April 2011. He also appears in a judicial training video on implicit bias, produced by the California Administrative Office of the Courts, which is widely used within the California system and the American Bar Association. These activities complement their work at PULSE, which leverages interdisciplinary research to examine how basic facts about our world influence various venues of law and policy making.
TRAINING CITIZEN-LAWYERS
If affiliated faculty members deserve a large share of credit for the burgeoning influence of UCLA Law's centers and programs, students are also central to the equation. Through the broad array of opportunities that the school affords them, they become active participants in an exceptional legal education that blends--and, often, reinforces--academic work with on-the-ground experience in policy reform. It is, Dean Moran says, all a part of the school's obligation to train citizenlawyers--legal professionals who provide high-quality service to their clients while also keeping in mind a greater common good. UCLA Law starts the training early, she says, emphasizing themes of service beginning in first-year orientation. It is programs like UCLA Law's David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy that attract public-interest minded students to UCLA Law. Defining "public interest" broadly to include all interests underrepresented by the private market, the Epstein Program offers a challenging approach to legal education that helps aspiring lawyers refine their own career goals while training them for work in the public interest. Student research and advocacy training incorporates client representation, community outreach, field research, social science theory and methodology, policy analysis and the best of
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" The collaborative process teases out your individual interests and passions and also shifts them. It forces you to consider why you want to do this work and builds your paradigm of what it means to be an informed advocate, literally learning what it is to do this type of work and understanding why it is meaningful for you."
traditional legal scholarship. Program faculty members prepare graduates to serve as consummate community advocates. This is a role that suits Francis "Frankie" Guzman '12, a recipient of two prestigious Soros fellowships. Using his training in the Epstein Program, he designed a project to fulfill an unmet need--he will begin work at the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland focusing on juvenile justice reform in California. Almas Tabassum Sayeed '12, another Epstein Program graduate, is beginning work at the Inner City Law Center of Los Angeles. Funded by a coveted Skadden Foundation Fellowship, Sayeed will help protect the rights of low-income tenants whose landlords are facing foreclosure. The Epstein Program gave them both the skills they will need to thrive. Students involved with the International Human Rights Law Program work on issues related to the pursuit of global justice. The program is unique in Southern California, and is focused on promoting the norms of international human rights law through research, advocacy and public education. Students in the program's International Justice Clinic are
enthusiastic beneficiaries of UCLA Law's emphasis on citizenlawyering. Under the clinic's auspices, they collaborate on projects like developing the program for a special workshop designed for Syrian human rights activists to address questions of transitional justice. This year, clinic students also worked on a Kenya-based initiative to investigate and prosecute human rights violations committed during 2007 post-election violence. "The clinic work was very fulfilling, and we profited from the different backgrounds of our colleagues, both inside and outside of the class," said Brandon Golob '13. "The collaborative process teases out your individual interests and passions and also shifts them. It forces you to consider why you want to do this work and builds your paradigm of what it means to be an informed advocate, literally learning what it is to do this type of work and understanding why it is meaningful for you." An additional group conducted interviews at the U.N. and among the diplomatic corps in New York and in London as part of a project on finding ways to build support within the U.N. Security Council for the International Criminal Court. Arming students with practical, hands-on knowledge is at the heart of the Prisoner Re-entry Clinic, as well. The clinic falls under the umbrella of the law school's student-run El Centro Legal Clinics. Professor Kimberl� Crenshaw helped to launch the clinic in 2007 and it is also part of the Race and Re-entry Initiative of the law school's Critical Race Studies (CRS) Program. The foremost institutional setting for the study of the intersection between race and the law, CRS has no parallel in American legal education. Since its establishment in 2000, the program has quickly emerged as a training ground
Cara Horowitz (front center), the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation executive director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, at Los Angeles City Hall with her students where they gave a presentation on their trip to the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
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Pledging a Fix for Campaign Financing
Professor Eric Zolt establishes an online platform to transform political contributions into charitable donations
Eric Zolt, Michael H. Schill distinguished professor of law and faculty director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy, is leading an effort to alter campaign financing. Through the new online platform Repledge (www.Repledge.com), Professor Zolt and cofounders Jonathan DiBenedetto, Robert Allen '93 and money out of politics.
Students at the International Criminal Court as part of a research trip focused on exploring witness protection challenges in sexual violence cases. for a new generation of practitioners, scholars and advocates interested in racial justice theory and practice. Tasked in the short term with combating employment discrimination against people with criminal records, students running the re-entry clinic work side by side with scholars and community organizers to help former prisoners in reclaiming their lives. The training students receive instructs them in the finer points of expunging misdemeanor and felony convictions, assisting with the applications for certificates of rehabilitation, challenging denials of occupational licenses and identifying potential employment discrimination claims. The payoff is immediate, says Sharon Hing '13, one of the clinic co-chairs. "The clinic allows us to put what we learn into action right away. Within the first month of my 1L year, I was assisting individuals working to overcome barriers to employment and housing." Underlying this training is an even more crucial long-term objective: effecting meaningful policy change capable of stopping the discrimination from taking root. "The notion that we have a special obligation of service is embedded in our DNA," says Dean Moran. At the dedication of the law school building in the early 1950s, Roscoe Pound, one of UCLA Law's first professors, called UCLA Law a "ministry of justice" that would serve as an indispensible resource for research and policy making. Creating the kind of environment that nurtures this ethos "is consistent with what Roscoe Pound envisioned for our future," Dean Moran says. Traditions of training for leadership, impactful scholarship and purposeful reform remain as vibrant and essential today as they were when the school was founded more than sixty years ago. The legacy is lasting change and legal education at its best.
Noah Ornstein '12, are taking a fresh approach to getting Repledge connects individuals who agree to transform
their political contributions into charitable donations if a gift. As Zolt notes, "It's Match.com for political opposites appointed with the tremendous amount of funds going into campaign finances." The idea, currently in beta testing, launches online
supporter of the opposing political candidate matches the who would still like to support their candidate but are dis-
fundraising drives in which Democratic and Republican contributions cancel each other out, with the money of $70,000 for Barack Obama and $60,000 for Mitt going to charity instead. If Repledge.com received pledges Romney, $120,000 would be directed toward charitable organizations, and the difference (in this case, $10,000) would be sent to the Obama campaign.
the money can just be better spent for charitable pur-
"Enough negative campaign ads and political mailers...
poses," Zolt says. "We think removing dollars from campaigns on a bipartisan basis makes sense in an election its founders, offers a way to scale back the "arms race" where more than $1 billion will be spent." Repledge, says of campaign financing. It has been gaining widespread including The Washington Post, California Watch and
attention, generating national press coverage in outlets The Huffington Post.
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UCLA Law Student Helps Her New Orleans Community Rise Out of Disaster
ay Thi Nguyen '13 has not only witnessed the devastation of large-scale catastrophes--Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon's oil spill--on her New Orleans community, but has made it her mission to help thousands meet these calamities with courage. Born in Louisiana after her parents and older siblings escaped Vietnam in a fishing boat, Nguyen learned community organizing in Katrina's aftermath by shadowing the charismatic pastor of her Catholic parish. A college student at Johns Hopkins at the time, she helped build a nonprofit organization to provide emergency relief and temporary housing for more than 3,000 residents. She also partnered with a credit union to raise more than $3 million in grants and loans. When the British Petroleum oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded off the Gulf coast in April 2010, Nguyen once again returned to assist her community. Setting aside a summer internship, Nguyen, now a student at UCLA Law, rallied behind the hundreds of commercial fishermen whose livelihoods had been abruptly curtailed by the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Nguyen raised funds for community nonprofits that were assisting the fishermen with the BP claims process. Joining with other volunteers, she helped bring in Vietnamese-speaking attorneys and law students by organizing the Vietnamese American Volunteer Law Corps. When the fishermen's claims for "loss of subsistence use" were basically going nowhere, Nguyen fought back by leading a successful "impact claims" strategy. "We didn't really want to fight or vilify BP," she said. "All we were saying to BP was: `Everybody knows you have to pay for the loss of subsistence use. You haven't quite figured out how to pay for it yet. So let us help you.'" Nguyen put together a campaign to convince governmentappointed claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg, BP and elected officials to recognize the fishermen's claims. Winning the support of the two U.S. senators from Louisiana, and
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working with Feinberg, Nguyen and the fishermen had their day before a Senate subcommittee. Shortly afterwards, BP came to the table to negotiate. In the end, the oil company revised its claim process, which resulted in the distribution of millions of dollars from BP. After celebrating, the fishermen and community organizers sent Nguyen back to UCLA, buying four new tires for her 12-year-old Nissan to make the return trip. "They told me to hurry up and graduate because they need a lawyer," she said, laughing. For these efforts, Nguyen, a member of the law school's David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, recently won a 2012 Rishwain Social Justice Entrepreneurship Award from the Center for Civil Society in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. *This article is excerpted with permission from UCLA Today.
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Students Conduct Human Rights Field Research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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rofessor Richard Steinberg led a group of students from the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project on a research trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo this spring. The trip was organized around three international human rights projects. At the request of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, based in Geneva, they conducted a preliminary assessment of the extent of human trafficking in the Congo. At the request of Human Rights Watch, the group assessed Congolese perceptions of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is currently prosecuting several militia leaders from the Congo. In conjunction with the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project's work with the International Criminal Court (ICC) Office of the
Prosecutor, they also assessed the types of reparations that are preferred by Congolese victims of mass atrocities. "The ICC has several million dollars of reparations funds to pay out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but there is no consensus on what form the reparations should take and who should receive them," Professor Steinberg, director of the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project, said. "We decided to ask the victims." The group met with the regional chief, village chief and village elders in Bogoro, a village that had been victimized by mass murder and mass rape. "The ability to hear about the experiences of the people of Bogoro first-hand, in their own voices, in a place where these crimes occurred is of crucial
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importance to anyone who is seeking to understand their trauma and to help them find a remedy in the aftermath of atrocity," Jonathan Tobin '12 said. The group also had the opportunity to interview recently demobilized militia combatants at the United Nations Demobilization, Disarmament, and Resettlement Camp in Goma. And, while working in Goma they unexpectedly came across the Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the ICC on war crimes charges, and ultimately located his compound (please see "Rebel on the Run" on page 43 for more information). The students are preparing reports on their findings, which will be available at www.uclaforum.com/sdj. Professor Steinberg returns to the Congo with students in the fall to conduct additional research. After meeting with the village elders in Bogoro, who are all males, they will return to interview the women and children to see what kinds of reparations they prefer. The group's conversations with the demobilized militia combatants in Goma have evolved into a project to help explain why militia combatants, particularly child soldiers, decide to demobilize and disarm, in order to propose policies that might facilitate more demobilization. Professor Steinberg and his students will also visit several villages in an effort to distill anthropological evidence of mass rape.
"The ability to hear about the experiences of the people of Bogoro firsthand, in their own voices, in a place where these crimes occurred is of crucial importance..."
Previous Page: A former member of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda in a tent at the United Nations disarmament camp in Goma. Top left: Demobilized members of the Mai Mai Cheka in Goma. Top right: Students hear the views of the villlagers in Bogoro. Right: A view from the road to Goma. Photos courtesy of Jonathan Tobin '12.
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Andrew M. Kaufman Named Executive Director of Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy
Andrew M. KAufMAn, a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School and formerly a senior transactional partner and now "of counsel" in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, has been appointed as the founding executive director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. Kaufman earned his bachelor's degree (cum laude) from Yale University in 1971 and his law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1974, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review and was elected to Order of the Coif. He is presently a member of the TriBar Andrew Kaufman Opinion Committee, one of the preeminent bodies addressing legal opinions in transactional practice, and serves as program chair for the national Working Group on Legal Opinions. He is also a member of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee, the Commercial Financial Services Committee, the Legal Opinions Committee and the Audit Responses Committee for the American Bar Association Section of Business Law. Kaufman lectures widely and writes frequently on financing, commercial law and legal-opinion issues at national professional seminars and programs and in related publications. Since 2009, he has been a professor of law in the law and business program at Vanderbilt University Law School, teaching courses on secured transactions, transactional practice, leveraged buyouts and syndicated loan transactions in commercial lending. At Vanderbilt, he also served on the dean's board of advisors.
Lowell Milken Institute Fellow Chosen
StaniSlav Dolgopolov was chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Lowell Milken Institute Law Teaching Fellowship. His primary research interests pertain to regulatory aspects of the structure of securities markets and the examination of insider trading and its regulation from a law and economics perspective. He has published several articles on topics including the impact of Stanislav Dolgopolov insider trading and other forms of informed trading on bid-ask spreads, the origins of insider trading regulation and "Chinese Walls" and the boundaries of fiduciary duties of market makers. Dolgopolov received his B.S.B.A. degree in Finance, cum laude with departmental honors, from Drake University, his M.B.A., with concentrations in Analytic Finance, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management, with honors, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School. While at law school, he held the John M. Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics.
UCLA Law Hosts Inaugural NYU-UCLA Tax Policy Conference
in october, the law school hosted the inaugural NYU-UCLA Tax Policy Conference, bringing together experts from two of the nation's strongest tax law faculties. Sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation and the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy, the conference focused on the tax policy implications of health care reform. Panelists at the day-long conference discussed the history and politics of both taxation and the U.S. health care system, and discussed the ramifications of "Obamacare." They addressed questions of tax alternatives to fund health care reform, presented quantitative political science data, examined how other countries fund health care and health care policy and discussed the long-term fiscal outlook for health care policy, among other topics. The proceedings of the tax policy conference will be published in the prestigious Tax Law Review. The joint annual conference provides a forum for leading scholars, policymakers and practitioners to offer expert perspectives on tax policy issues and options for reform from both a legal and economic perspective. The NYU-UCLA Tax Policy Conference rotates between Los Angeles and New York reaching two key hubs of business activity. The second conference will be held in October 2012 in New York and will focus on the 100th anniversary of the modern U.S. income tax.
Lowell Milken '73, NYU Law Professors Deborah Schenk and Daniel Shaviro, UCLA Law Professors Eric Zolt and Kirk Stark and Dean Moran
Conference participants discuss tax policy implications of health care reform.
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Ucla law named america's top entertainment law School by The Hollywood Reporter
Ucla School of law waS rankeD nUmber one in The Hollywood Reporter's first listing of the best schools for an entertainment law education. Ranking higher than USC Gould School of Law and Harvard Law, UCLA Law claimed the top spot on the list for its diverse and specialized course offerings, esteemed alumni working in all fields of entertainment and the ability of students to also take classes at UCLA's film and business schools. The publication noted that UCLA Law was one of the first schools to consider entertainment a serious discipline, more than four decades ago, and cited the annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium as a key event for top executives and lawyers. For this new listing, The Hollywood Reporter surveyed more than 200 law schools in the nation, evaluating their course offerings, practical training options and alumni working in the field in order to choose the top 10 entertainment law schools.
UCLA Law Hosts 36th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium
Ucla School of law hosted the 36th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium, "Killer Deals � What Works, What's New, What's Coming?" in March. A highlight of the event was a keynote interview with CBS Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves. To a packed audience, Moonves, a career executive in the entertainment industry who has been at the forefront of innovation, discussed the network's approach to distributing content on emerging digital platforms. Ken Ziffren '65, of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, and an adjunct professor in the UCLA School of Law Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property
UCLA Law "Power Lawyers"
An iMpressive 17 uCLA sChooL of law alUmni have been selected by The Hollywood Reporter as 2012 Power Lawyers. Congratulations to: John Branca '75, Ziffren Brittenham LLP Skip Brittenham '70, Ziffren Brittenham LLP Melanie Cook '78, Ziffren Brittenham LLP Sam Fischer '82, Ziffren Brittenham LLP Ruth Fisher '80, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP John Frankenheimer '73, Loeb & Loeb LLP Michael Gendler '80, Gendler & Kelly LLP Carlos Goodman '88, Bloom Hergot Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman Schenkman & Goodman LLP Howard King '77, King Holmes Paterno & Berliner LLP Dale Kinsella '74, Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP Skip Miller '72, Miller Barondess LLP Schuyler Moore '81, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP Marcy Morris '81, Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austin Mandelbaum Morris & Klein LLP Robert Offer '92, Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern LLP Jason Sloane '88, Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern LLP Gary Stiffelman '79, Ziffren Brittenham LLP Ken Ziffren '65, Ziffren Brittenham LLP
Leslie Moonves
Law Program, conducted the interview. Panelists at the two-day event, which addresses subjects at the forefront of the entertainment industry, explored the changing landscape of the entertainment industry. They shared their perspectives on the impact of evolving technologies, which are causing a re-examination of long established practices and assumptions. Panelists and moderators included eminent UCLA School of Law faculty members and top entertainment lawyers, along with key executives from Hasbro Studios, Twentieth Century Fox, Netflix, Cinemark Theatres, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, ABC Television, Creative Artists Agency, YouTube and Facebook. Independent producers, agents and media developers also presented their perspectives from the frontlines.
Leslie Moonves and Ken Ziffren '65
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Record-Breaking Campaign Exceeds Fundraising Goal
Through The vision, dediCATion And generosiTy of ALuMni and friends, the Campaign for UCLA School of Law has exceeded its ambitious $100 million goal. Launched in 2008 as the largest fundraising effort in the law school's history, the campaign met its goal well ahead of the original five-year schedule through a transformative $10 million gift--the largest single gift in the school's history--from alumnus Lowell Milken '73. The successful campaign will enable the law school to increase privately funded resources for student scholarships, maintain its outstanding track record in attracting and retaining a world-class faculty and expand the school's centers, institutes and programs. In particular, the campaign led to the creation of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy, the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy (previously a program), the Michael T. Masin Scholars Fund and the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Endowed Fund in support of Public Interest Law. The campaign funded the A. Barry Cappello Courtroom, the Bruce H. Spector Conference Room and the Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Endowed Law Review Fellow Fund. The campaign also doubled the number of law school endowed chairs, including four chairs created by longtime supporters Ralph '58 and Shirley Shapiro. UCLA School of Law had the highest rate of growth in alumni giving of any top 20 law school, as participation rates soared to more than 30%. Key to this success was the Law Firm Challenge, which broke new records every year, under the leadership of James D. C. Barrall '75, as well as the recently created Reunion Challenge.
Ken Ziffren '65, Nelson Rising '67, Maggie Hern�ndez '85 and Ralph Shapiro '58
Dean Moran and James D. C. Barrall '75
Professor Emeritus Norman Abrams and Chancellor Block
Law Firm Challenge Breaks New Record
Challenge celebrates 10 years of success
in itS tenth year, the success of the Law Firm Challenge continues to grow. With 80% of alumni at 98 participating firms making a gift to the law school and an impressive 52 firms reaching the 100% mark, 2012 was one of the biggest and best years for this important program. These benchmarks have helped to raise the law school's annual alumni giving percentages to be among the top in the nation, and the challenge has gained nationwide recognition as a model for other law schools. Since helping found the challenge in 2002 with only four firms, Law Firm Challenge Chair James D. C. Barrall '75 has been essential to growing this critical fundraising initiative. The law school also relies on and is extremely grateful for the leadership of the 123 representatives at the law firms in the challenge. The Law Firm Challenge remains an important contributor to the school's growing excellence and national reputation, but it is also a fun and friendly competition between alumni. The firms and representatives who participate in it all have a good time competing with each other to get to 100%. To learn more about the Law Firm Challenge please visit www.law.ucla.edu/LFC. To enroll your organization, please contact Michelle deBaroncelli at (310) 206-1170 or debaroncelli@law.ucla.edu.
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UCLA Law Celebrates Law School"Legends"
a Special celebration, hosted in February by Dean Rachel F. Moran, honored past leaders of UCLA School of Law and influential faculty members--our "legends." The event also was held in recognition of the 60th anniversary of the law school's first graduating class. This unique evening commemorating the law school's history brought together the UCLA Law community, including alumni, friends and faculty members, as well as the honorees, to pay tribute to those who have played crucial roles in shaping the law school and contributing to its excellence. The honorees included past deans and interim deans Richard Maxwell, William Warren, Susan Westerberg Prager, Jonathan Varat, Norman Abrams, Michael H. Schill and Stephen Yeazell, as well as emeritus professors Kenneth Karst and Herbert Morris. UCLA Chancellor Emeritus Charles Young and Executive Vice Chancellor Scott Waugh participated in the program, along with alumni moderators David Epstein '64 and Ralph Shapiro '58.
From left: Jonathan Varat; Herbert Morris; Kenneth Karst; Richard Maxwell; Rachel F. Moran; William Warren; Michael H. Schill; Norman Abrams and Susan Westerberg Prager
UCLA Law Marks the Creation of the Honorable Harry Pregerson Chair in Law
in april, the law School hoSteD a reception to celebrate the establishment of the Honorable Harry Pregerson Chair in Law. Alumni, faculty members, former clerks and donors who helped make the chair possible, all gathered to honor the life and work of Ninth Circuit United States Court of Appeals Judge Harry Pregerson. After a welcome from Dean Moran, Elizabeth Cheadle '81, the current dean of students at UCLA Law and a former clerk of Judge Pregerson, addressed the crowd, as did Melanie Cook '78, who helped lead the effort to create the chair. They were followed by remarks from Judge Pregerson himself. Judge Pregerson is a noted jurist, mentor and community activist who has served on the state and federal bench for more than 45 years. As a district judge, he structured a consent decree that created thousands of affordable housing units for those displaced by construction of the I-105 Century Freeway. He played a key role in protecting public health when he ordered the City of Los Angeles to stop dumping sewage sludge into Santa Monica Bay. Judge Pregerson is a tireless advocate for the homeless in Los Angeles County, particularly veterans and families. He has participated in the development and construction of shelters, transitional housing and child development centers throughout Los Angeles, and he continues to work closely with these facilities. The Pregerson Chair recognizes his years of service to the bench and his commitment to the community and underserved members of society. It will enrich the study and teaching of public interest law at UCLA Law.
Dean Moran with Judge Pregerson
Melanie Cook '78, Judge Pregerson, Katie Rodan, Judge Pregerson's daughter, and Amnon Rodan
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Jasleen Kohli Appointed Director of Critical Race Studies Program
JaSleen kohli haS JoineD the UCLA Law Critical Race Studies Program as its new director. Kohli, whose experience includes advocacy and policy development, was most recently a policy and research analyst at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), a leading advocacy organization dedicated to promoting sustainable economic development. Earlier, she served as the first staff attorney at UNITE HERE Local 11, a union that represents hotel and food service workers. Kohli holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. degree in English literature from UC Berkeley. While a student at Harvard Law, she co-directed and produced a highly regarded documentary on issues of race and legal pedagogy titled "Legally Black and Brown and Yellow and Red."
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Critical Race Studies and Law and Philosophy Fellows Placed in Tenure-Track Positions
prisCiLLA oCen '07, The 2010-12 CriTiCAL rACe sTudies progrAM law teaching fellow, and David Plunkett, a 2010-12 Law and Philosophy postdoctoral scholar, have accepted tenure-track teaching positions. Ocen has joined the faculty of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles as associate professor of law and Plunkett has joined the faculty at Dartmouth College as an assistant professor in the Philosophy Department. Ocen, who will teach Criminal Law in fall 2012 and Critical Race Theory in the spring, graduated magna cum laude from San Diego Priscilla Ocen '07 State University with a B.A. in Africana Studies and Political Science (2003). She received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law (2007) with a specialization in Critical Race Studies. Upon graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Eric L. Clay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and served as the Thurgood Marshall Fellow at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. Plunkett, who will teach Ethical Theory in fall 2012, earned his A.B. from Harvard in Social Studies (2004) and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Philosophy (2010). During David Plunkett graduate school, he also spent time as a visiting student in the philosophy departments at MIT, Stanford and the Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. His primary areas of research are in Metaethics, Normative Ethics and Philosophy of Law.
law School event examines civil liberties 10 years after 9/11
the critical race StUDieS program and the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy jointly sponsored a panel discussion, "The War on Terror from Bush to Obama: Civil Liberties 10 Years After 9/11." Professor Cheryl Harris moderated the event, which highlighted the changes in U.S. government policies in the areas of civil liberties, immigrants' rights and human rights during Cheryl Harris the last decade. Panelists included Professors Asli B�li and Hiroshi Motomura and Aziz Ahmad '10, of the ACLU Racial Justice Project. They examined the continuities in the use of policies and practices-- such as immigration detention and deportation, expanded FBI powers and prevention detention--between the Bush and Obama administrations, as well as the role of the courts since 9/11.
Asli B�li, Aziz Ahmad '10 and Hiroshi Motomura
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Mayor Villaraigosa Co-Hosts Symposium on Education Reform in California
Mayor Villaraigosa speaks at UCLA Law.
loS angeleS mayor antonio villaraigoSa gave the opening address and co-hosted "Learning Curve: The Trajectory of Education Reform Litigation in California," held at UCLA Law in April. The symposium explored the challenges and progress of educational access and equity and examined the retooling of education advocacy. UCLA Law Professors Gary Blasi and Stuart Biegel, along with Brian Currey, counsel to the mayor, moderated the event. Speakers included Robin Johansen, founding partner of Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, LLP; Margaret Weston, policy associate of the Public Policy Institute of California; Professors John Rogers and Thomas Philip from the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies; Professor William Koski from Stanford Law School; and Catherine Lhamon, director of impact litigation at Public Counsel Law Center.
Panelists Catherine Lhamon, William Koski and Robin Johansen
Endowed Lectures Focus on Civil Rights Litigation and Intellectual Property Issues
AnnA y. pArK '92, regionAL ATTorney for the Los Angeles District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), delivered the Irving H. Green Memorial Lecture in November. During her talk, "The EEOC: Advancing the Promise of Opportunity in the Public Interest," she described what it takes to be a civil rights litigator and shared her experience litigating civil rights cases. Calling her work a "dream job" and saying that in this job "you are giving a voice to the voiceless," she talked about some of the cases she has worked on at the EEOC, including those involving human trafficking, sexual harassment and age discrimination. Also in November, the law school hosted the Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture, which commemorates the career of copyright authority and UCLA Law Professor Mel Nimmer with a discussion by a scholar who is advancing the field of copyright. This year's lecturer, James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds professor of law at Duke University School of Law and a specialist in online intellectual property law, delivered the talk "Back to the Future: Piracy, Technological Revolution and a `Scheme of Greed.'" The event also paid tribute to Gloria Nimmer, the wife of Mel Nimmer and the driving force behind the establishment of the Nimmer Lecture, who passed away last spring.
Anna Park '92
James Boyle
UCLA Professor Mark Green, Irving Green's son, Dean Moran, Anna Park '92 and Professor Gary Blasi
Professor Laura G�mez and Alumni Participate in Research Trip to Cuba
profeSSor laUra e. g�mez lectured on "Law and Society in Socialist Cuba" during a one-week research trip to Havana, Cuba, sponsored by California Lawyers for the Arts. The trip was organized by Cynthia Sanchez '02, co-vice president of California Lawyers for the Arts and counsel for policy and international affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington, D.C. Also traveling with the group was Lena Hines '02, a tax manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. The trip included a seminar on the Cuban legal framework, a visit with Cuban attorneys who specialize in international arbitration and seminars with Cuban judges and law professors.
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Key Figures in the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice Visit UCLA Law
lUiS moreno-ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), delivered a keynote address at UCLA School of Law in November. His lecture focused on questions concerning the ICC's issuance of arrest warrants for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son Saif al-Islam. To a packed audience, Prosecutor MorenoOcampo described the ICC's investigation into crimes against humanity committed in Libya, including the timeline of applying and issuing arrest warrants. Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo posed the question of whether the situation in Libya signals that the world is no longer accepting crimes against humanity, or whether this was a unique case. He also talked about the role of the prosecutor, saying that politics do not affect judicial decisions and that he must follow the criminal prosecutor's mandate. The visit, co-sponsored by UCLA School of Law's Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project, was part of the American Society of International Law (ASIL)'s second annual Midyear Meeting, which was held at the law school. The law school was also pleased to welcome Judge Joan Donoghue of the International Court of Justice to UCLA Law as part of the ASIL event. Elected in 2010 (she is the third woman elected to the court), Judge Donoghue spoke to students about her experience as one of 15 judges on the court in The Hague. She described the function and history of the International Court of Justice, talked about the ways the court is different from national courts and gave examples of the kinds of cases the court decides, including boundary dispute cases.
Top: Luis Moreno-Ocampo speaks with a student. Bottom left: Luis Moreno-Ocampo and Sanela Diana Jenkins. Right: Judge Joan Donoghue.
UCLA Law Review Symposium Addresses Women, Race and Criminalization
in JanUary, the law School hosted the UCLA Law Review symposium, "Overpoliced and Underprotected: Women, Race, and CrimiKemba Smith Pradia nalization." The symposium convened national experts in the area of racial justice, as well as practitioners and community activists, to examine how the criminalization of women and girls is mediated through the intersection of race, class and gender. The two-day symposium opened with a screening of "When the Bough Breaks--Children of Women in Prison," and a discussion with Kemba Smith Pradia, founder of the Kemba Smith Foundation. Panelists addressed topics including the impact of women's incarceration on their families and communities, the effect of re-entering society with a criminal record and the ways in which law, public policy and social advocacy function to normalize widespread punishments of women of color behind prison walls. The event was sponsored by the law school's Critical Race Studies Program and David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law Policy, as well as Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations co-hosted the premiere of "In the Land of Blood and Honey," a film about the war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and the directorial debut of Angelina Jolie. From left: Professor Kal Raustiala, director of the Burkle Center, and Kathleen McHugh, director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, join actor Rade Serbedzija, actresses Angelina Jolie, Vanessa Glodjo, Zana Marjanovi and actor Goran Kostic on the red carpet at the December 2011 event.
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Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project Presents "Human Rights Heroes"
During the spring semester, the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project hosted the Human Rights Heroes Speakers Series. The series featured presentations from human rights activists from around the world, as well as a screening of "Darfur Now" and a discussion with the film's director, Ted Braun. Other speakers included: William Burke-White, professor of law, University of Pennsylvania; Richard Dicker, director, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch; Sister Consuelo Morales Elizondo, director, Citizens in Support of Human Rights; Jean Enriquez, executive director, Coalition Against Trafficking of Women Asia-Pacific (CATW-AP); Sunitha Krishnan, cofounder, Prajwala; Mohamed Mattar, executive director, The Protection Project at Johns Hopkins University; Madeleine Rees, secretary general, Women's International League for Peace; Paul Rice, president and CEO, Fair Trade USA; and Jenni Williams, national coordinator, Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA).
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UCLA Law Hosts 19th Annual PILF Auction
The 19Th AnnuAl Public inTeresT lAw Fund (PILF) Auction, held in March, was another great success thanks to the donors, sponsors, volunteers and bidders. A highlight of the animated evening was the live auction, with Professor Paul Bergman, CRS Program Director Jasleen Kohli and Jeffrey Cohen '05 auctioning off vacations and outings with UCLA Law faculty members, among other prizes. Each year, PILF, a student-run organization, raises funds to help provide summer grants to first- and second-year students who intend to pursue unpaid public service work during the summer. Led this past year by auction co-chairs Gabe Huey '13 and Mairin Fogarty '13, and with the support of the Office of Public Interest Programs, the efforts of the student board members and volunteers, and the generosity of the faculty, alumni and members of the community, the event continues to be one of the year's highlights. More than 500 people attended this year's auction, and the money raised has helped the school to fund the more than 230 students who worked in nonprofit organizations and government agencies throughout the country and abroad this past summer.
UCLA Sustainable Technology & Policy Program Receives $2.5 Million Grant
the ucLa sustainaBLe technoLogy & poLicy program, a joint undertaking of the schools of law and public health, is a co-recipient of a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The grant will support clinical trials on the impact of copper surfaces in reducing hospital-acquired infections, such as MRSA, E. coli and C. difficile. The research will be conducted at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and is an interdisciplinary collaboration between teams from the David Geffen School of Medicine, the Fielding School of Public Health, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the UCLA Sustainable Technology & Policy Program.
Workshops Address Topics in Law and Economics
the LoweLL miLken institute for Business Law anD poLicy, along with the law school's Center for Law and Economics, sponsored a series of seminars where speakers presented their works-in-progress in the broad area of law and economics. Workshop topics ranged from the economics of buyouts to capital punishment. This year's speakers included: Robert D. Cooter, UC Berkeley School of Law; John J. Donohue III, Stanford Law School; Shmuel Leshem, USC Law; Joshua C. Teitelbaum, Georgetown University Law Center; Abraham Wickelgren, University of Texas School of Law; and Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, University of Pennsylvania Law School. The workshops are organized by UCLA Law Professors Mark Grady and Alexander Stremitzer.
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UCLA Law Students Win U.S. Supreme Court Case
THE LAW SCHOOL'S NEW SUPREME COURT CLINIC has won its first case. Jenny Osborne '11 and Katie Strickland '11 helped write the respondent's brief in Missouri v. Frye, a case involving the question of whether the constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel applies during plea negotiations that do not end in a guilty plea. In March, the court handed down a 5-4 victory for the clinic's client, Galin Frye. The clinic worked on the case in cooperation with Emmett Queener of the Missouri Public Defender's office, who gave the students most of the credit for the win. "I'm sure the brief was way, way more persuasive than the few minutes I spoke to the Court," Queener said. Supreme Court Clinic students work on real cases before the United States Supreme Court, while learning how the Court selects and decides its cases and how lawyers shape their arguments. This was the clinic's first merits case before the Court.
UCLA Law Hosts Law and Philosophy Conference
IN APRIL, undergraduates, graduate students, law students and lawyers attended the UCLA Graduate Conference on Law and Philosophy. Speakers from a range of law and philosophy backgrounds presented papers on topics including "Non Execution: The President's Mark Greenberg Dilemma and the Limits of Judicial Review" and "Control, Contempt, and Ignorance of the Law." Professor Mark Greenberg presented the keynote address on "Law as Morality," in which he offered a theory of law that describes the significance of moral considerations for determining the content of the law. The conference was organized by the UCLA Law and Philosophy Students Group, which includes students from both the law school and the UCLA Philosophy Department. The law school's Law and Philosophy Program was also one of the event sponsors.
UCLA School of Law Sponsors Screening of Documentary on Global Maternal Health
IN MAY, UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW, along with the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and Harlen, a luxury brand that supports the empowerment of women, sponsored a special screening of "No Woman, No Cry," a documentary that shares the stories of at-risk pregnant women in four parts of the world. The screening was followed by a panel discussion on global maternal health, which was moderated by Julie Cantor, an adjunct faculty member at the law school. Panelists included Christy Turlington Burns, the film's director and producer; Ted Braun, the writer and director of "Darfur Now;" Paula Tavrow, co-director of the UC Global Health Institute's Center of Expertise on Women's Health & Empowerment; and Christopher Tarnay, director of urogynecology in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UCLA.
Juan Jose Red�n '07 was one of 21 "inspirational American heroes" chosen to attend the State of the Union Address in January. He was seated in the box with First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden. Red�n, an associate at Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., was chosen for the honor for his work and passion to ensure educational access to all.
Scene from "No Woman, No Cry"
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Emmett Center Publishes Pritzker Policy Briefs
the emmett Center on CLimAte ChAnge And the environment recently published two Pritzker Environmental Law and Policy Briefs. In January, Professor Timothy Malloy addressed California's newly proposed green chemistry regulations in the paper, "Toxics in Consumer Products: California's Green Chemistry Regulations at a Crossroad." He describes how the regulations are flawed and makes recommendations for correcting the deficiencies. Cara Horowitz, the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation executive director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, published "Bright Roofs, Big City: Keeping L.A. Cool Through an Aggressive Cool-Roof Program" in October. The paper recommends the widespread use of cool roofing material to reduce air pollution and energy costs and proposes law and policy strategies for achieving this goal to combat climate change. The Pritzker Environmental Law and Policy Briefs are supported by a gift from Anthony Pritzker, the managing partner and co-founder of The Pritzker Group. They provide expert analysis on legislation, academic research, corporate actions and public dialog on urgent issues impacting the environment. In addition to the Pritzker Briefs, Cara Horowitz, M. Rhead Enion, Sean B. Hecht and Professor Ann Carlson published "Spending California's Cap-and-Trade Auction Revenue: Understanding the Sinclair Paint Risk Spectrum." In this report, the authors assess the legal constraints on AB 32 auction revenue allocations that derive from the statute itself or from California's constitutional restrictions on the use of regulatory fees. The report offers careful analysis of the relative risks of various approaches to allocating the state's AB 32 auction revenue proceeds. To read copies of these reports, please visit www.law.ucla.edu/emmett.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Meets With UCLA Law Students
UCLA LAw stUdents participating in the UC-DC Law Program, a full-semester externship program in Washington, D.C., had the unique and perhaps once-in-a-lifetime experience of meeting with and asking questions of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Following a discussion of his latest book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View, Justice Stephen Breyer met separately with 14 law students from University of California law schools and three students from Columbia Law School. In this intimate setting, Justice Breyer answered questions on a range of topics regarding the inner workings of the U.S. Supreme Court and provided a rare glimpse into his decision-making process.
Students Nina Jarass '12 and Lauren Bernadett '13 meet with clinic client Mark Jariabka, the executive director of Islands First, at the climate conference.
Students Attend U.N. Climate Change Conference
A stUdent deLegAtion from the Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic traveled to Durban, South Africa to attend the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in November. The students were able to observe climate negotiations in action and provided on-the-ground assistance to clinic client Islands First, a non-governmental organization working on behalf of the small island developing states to confront the challenges of climate change. The students conducted research, took notes at relevant negotiations and helped address questions posed by island negotiators. They posted updates and analysis on Legal Planet, the joint UCLA Law and UC Berkeley Law environmental law and policy blog. This is the second time a group of UCLA Law students participated in the UNFCCC; students attended the talks in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009.
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Corporate Governance
in his new book, Corporate GovernanCe after the finanCial Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2012), William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law Stephen Bainbridge proves expert at turning conventional wisdom on its head. His argument--that federalizing corporate governance impinges on state sovereignty, hobbles corporate efficiency and shortchanges both investors and the American taxpayer--advances a critical dialogue about the limits of crisisdriven public policy. Professor Bainbridge offers an incisive analysis of the landscape-altering Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank acts, responses to the near-cataclysmic economic downturns of the last decade. By crystallizing the connection between federal intervention and bad public policy, he makes a strong case for the need for smart corporate governance reform. Professor Bainbridge, who joined the UCLA Law faculty in 1997 and has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the field of corporate governance, is a renowned teacher and scholar whose expertise includes the law and economics of public corporations. How do you define "quack" corporate governance laws or regulations? Unwise federal laws or SEC rules that meet these criteria: (1) The law was supported by a powerful interest group coalition, which used a financial crisis such as the post-Lehman Bros. credit crunch in 2007-2008 to achieve longstanding policy goals essentially unrelated to the causes or consequences of the financial crisis. (2) The new law or rule lacks strong empirical or theoretical justification. To the contrary, there are theoretical and empirical reasons to believe that each is bad public policy. (3) The new law or rule erodes the system of competitive federalism that is the unique genius of American corporate law by displacing state regulation with federal law.
Q&A with Professor Stephen Bainbridge
After the Financial Crisis
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Why are the corporate governance provisions of federal financial reform laws like Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank so misguided? In ordinary times, Washington typically has more important issues on its plate than corporate governance. After a financial bubble bursts, however, investors burnt by losses from the breaking of the bubble and outraged by evidence of misconduct by corporate insiders and financial bigwigs create populist pressure for new regulation. Accordingly, it is in the post-bubble environment, when scandals and economic reversals are in the headlines, that Congress typically acts. Because such periods typically involve an upswing in populist anger and accompanying intense public pressure for action, they offer windows of opportunity for wellpositioned policy entrepreneurs to market their preferred solutions when there is little time for reflective deliberation. As a result, you end up with laws meeting criteria for quack corporate governance laws. Indeed, according to our colleague Stuart Banner's wonderful book, AngloAmerican Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860 (1998), the same pattern of boom, bust and regulation can be seen far back into the nineteenth century. You argue against the conventional wisdom that problems of corporate governance led to the financial crisis of 2008. Why? There is little evidence that poor corporate governance practices contributed to either the economic turmoil of the last decade in general or the declining competitiveness of U.S. capital markets. In the wake of the tech stock bubble, Bengt Holmstrom and Steven Kaplan published a comprehensive review of U.S. corporate governance that concluded the U.S. corporate governance regime was "well above average" in the global picture.1 Even when the fallout from the bubble was taken into account, returns on the U.S. stock market equaled or exceeded those of its global competitors during five time periods going back as far as 1982. Likewise, U.S. productivity exceeded that of its major Western competitors. In general, the trend with respect to major corporate governance practices had been toward enhanced management efficiency and accountability. Pay for performance compensation schemes, takeovers, restructurings, increased reliance on independent directors and improved board of director processes all tended to more effectively align management and shareholder interests. As far as the economic crisis following the bursting of the housing bubble, "[a] striking aspect of the stock market meltdown of 2008 is that it occurred despite the strengthening of U.S. corporate governance over the past few decades and a reorientation toward the promotion of shareholder value."2 A recent report commissioned by the New York Stock Exchange reached the same conclusion, finding that "the current corporate governance system generally works well."3 In what ways does an expanded federal regulatory role in corporate governance potentially exacerbate the very problems it purports to solve? Bubble laws like Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank tend to be adopted in a hurry. As we have seen, the pressure of time tends to give advantages to interest groups and other policy entrepreneurs who have prepackaged purported solutions that can be readily adapted into legislative form. Hence, for example, many of both statutes' provisions were recycled ideas that had been advocated for quite some time by corporate governance "reformers." Unfortunately, because these so-called reformers tend to be critics of markets and corporations, both statutes imposed regulations that penalize or outlaw potentially useful devices and practices and more generally discourage risk-taking by punishing negative results and reducing the rewards for success.
When it comes to regulating corporations, what is the problem with a one-size-fits-all approach? Anybody who has ever shopped for a Speedo knows that "one size fits all" simply isn't true. Like people, not all corporations are the same. What is the link between shareholder involvement and corporate performance? Does an increase in the former always trigger an improvement in the latter? Actually, the bulk of the evidence is that shareholder involvement does not--outside a few special cases--improve firm performance. I review the evidence at length in Chapter 7 of Corporate Governance After the Financial Crisis. While there is little evidence that activism has benefits for investors as a class, there is considerable evidence for the proposition that activist shareholders can profit through private rent seeking. This result is not surprising, of course. First, the high costs and low success rate of activism suggest that its net gains are substantially lower than many proponents of shareholder activism claim. Second, if activism increases the target firm's stock price, all of its shareholders can free ride on the activist's efforts. It makes no sense for an activist to expend substantial resources when the bulk of the gains from doing so will be captured by others. Instead, we would expect activists to pursue an agenda of private rent seeking rather than altruistic public service. And that's exactly what we tend to see. The past decade has witnessed a gradual narrowing of the scope of boards of directors and an increasing reliance on director independence. Why is this not a panacea for the ills of corporate governance? This is such an important question that I devoted an entire chapter to the ever-increasing reliance on independent directors. In it, I argue that director independence rules not only failed to prevent the financial crises of the last decade, but may well have contributed to them. I admit that's a provocative claim, but I'm confident it's correct. The strict conflict of interest rules embedded in the new definitions of independence made it difficult for financial institutions to find independent directors with expertise in their industry. A survey of eight U.S. major financial institutions, for example, found that two thirds of directors had no banking experience. Given the inherent information asymmetries between insiders and outsiders, the lack of board expertise significantly compounded the inability of financial institution boards to effectively monitor their firms during the pre-crisis period. More expert boards could have done more with the information made available to them and, moreover, would have been better equipped to identify gaps therein that needed filling. In addition, the need to find independent directors put an emphasis on avoiding conflicted interests at the expense of competence. In other words, the problem was not just that the new definition of independence excluded many candidates with industry expertise. It was also that the emphasis on objective indicia of conflicts dominated the selection process to the exclusion of indicia of basic competence and good judgment. The financial crisis thus appears, in part, to have been an unintended consequence of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
1. 2. 3. Bengt Holmstrom & Steven N. Kaplan, The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong? 1 (ECGI Finance Working Paper No. 23/2003, Sept. 2003). Brian R. Cheffins, Did Corporate Governance "Fail" During the 2008 Stock Market Meltdown? The Case of the S&P 500, 65 Bus. Law. 1, 2 (2009). Report of the New York Stock Exchange Commission on Corporate Governance 2 (Sept. 23, 2010).
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UCLA Law Student Receives 2012 Soros Justice Fellowship
Francis "Frankie" Guzman '12, a member of the law school's David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, has been awarded a prestigious 2012 Soros Justice Fellowship by the Open Society Institute. The fellowship will fund his work at the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland, California, focusing on juvenile justice reform in California. Guzman is honored to be a "double" Soros fellow, having received the 2011 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans last year. "I am very excited and humbled by this lifechanging opportunity," he said, crediting Professors Gary Blasi Francis Guzman '12 and Jyoti Nanda, as well as Catherine Mayorkas and Rochelle Adelman, director and assistant director, respectively, of the Epstein Program, for helping him attain his "dream" job.
UCLA Law Student Awarded ABI Medal of Excellence
DaviD Regan '13 was awarded the 2012 American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Medal of Excellence. The award honors top law students who receive the highest grades in bankruptcy courses and who show great promise for a career in bankruptcy practice. Regan David Regan '13 was chosen to receive the award based on his performance in Professor Kenneth Klee's bankruptcy course (Law 248), in fall 2011, and Professor Daniel Bussel's bankruptcy transactional class (Law 740), in spring 2012, and for his summer work at Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP.
UCLA Law Hosts Regional Round of National Negotiation Competition
in February, the law school hosted the Western Regional Round of the Third Annual Transactional LawMeetSM, the premier "moot court" experience for students interested in transactional practice. UCLA Law students Brandt Hollander '13, Timothy Najera '13 and Allison Schall '12 represented the law school, and took first place in this round of the competition. While the competition is in its Timothy Najera '13, Allison Schall '12 and Brandt Hollander '13 third year, this was the first year that regional meets were held. The UCLA Law meet, one of five regionals, hosted 10 teams from law schools including UC Davis, UC Hastings, University of Colorado and University of Washington. The competition requires students to work in teams to draft a transactional agreement and to negotiate its provisions with other student teams. Teams are judged by a panel of experts from practice, and this year's challenge involved the negotiation of an executive employment agreement for a new chief executive officer.
Skadden Foundation Fellowship Awarded
almas sayeeD '12, a student in the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy and Empirical Legal Scholars Program, was awarded a prestigious 2012 Skadden Foundation Fellowship. She will work at the Inner City Law Center of Los Angeles, Almas Sayeed '12 focusing on protecting the rights of low-income tenants whose landlords are facing foreclosure. A graduate of the University of Kansas and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Fulbright fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Sayeed worked for the Center for American Progress, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and in the New York governor's office before beginning her legal studies at UCLA Law.
Students Take Top Honors at Moot Court Competition
at this year's western reGional black law students association (BLSA) Convention, held in Seattle, Washington, students Mickheila Jasmin '13 and Tara Kearns '12 placed first in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition. Donte Blue '12, Duwayne Carr '14, Jasmine Hernandez '12 and John Reynolds '14 were awarded Second Runner Up in the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition. Donte Blue also received the award for Best Oral Advocate. In addition, UCLA's Black Law Students Association was named the 2011-12 Western Region BLSA Chapter of the Year.
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Ten UCLA Law Students Receive California Bar Foundation Scholarships
ten ucla law students received 2011 California Bar Foundation Scholarships--the most scholarship recipients from any California law school this year. The scholarships assist students with tuition and related education expenses, and are awarded to exceptional law students who demonstrate a commitment to public service and academic excellence. Five students received awards from the foundation's flagship Public Interest Scholarship Program: Margaret Buitrago '12 Brittany Goodnight '12 Christian Kurpiewski '12 Almas Sayeed '12 Siobhan Waldron '12 Five students were awarded scholarships under the foundation's Diversity Scholarship Program: Tristan Bufete '14 Christina Lynn Burke '14 Alexa Camarena '14 Sadath Garcia '14 John Haney '14 The students were honored at the organization's scholarship reception, which was held in San Francisco in September 2011.
Student Awards and Honors
Lauren Frinkman '12 won the Beverly Hills Bar Association's Third Annual "Rule of Law Essay Writing Competition." UCLA Law students Jullian Harris-Calvin '13 and Ana Graciela N�jera Mendoza '14 were awarded Beverly Hills Bar Foundation Scholarships. Recent UCLA Law graduates Christine Green '11 and Akua Searcy '11 won the only two scholarships given by the Black Women Lawyers of Los Angeles. Paul Jung '13 and Nayla Wren '14 were awarded prestigious Peggy Browning Fellowships to work in the field of public interest labor law. During the 10-week summer fellowships, Jung worked at the Los Angeles Black Worker Center and Wren worked at Gilbert & Sackman, a union-side labor law firm. The fellowships are presented to distinguished students who have demonstrated their commitment to workers' rights. This year, of the seven John M. Langston Bar Association scholarships awarded, three went to UCLA Law students Caliph Assagai '12, Alisha Burgin '12 and Rosa Noyola '13. Seven UCLA Law students received Mexican American Bar Foundation Scholarships at the organization's 21st Scholarship & Awards Gala, which was held in June. The recipients are: Daniel Borca '14; Alex Ch�vez '13; Ana Graciela N�jera Mendoza '14; Esmeralda V. Meza '13; Rosa Noyola '13; Yecenia Olmos '14; and Maria I. Rodriguez '13. Caliph Assagai '12 was chosen as a National Bar Institute Public Service Fellow, was awarded the Association of Business Trial Lawyers Public Service Scholarship and was awarded the Wiley Manuel Bar Association (formerly known as the Sacramento Association of Black Attorneys) Honorable Judge Benjamin Travis Community Service Award. Ana Graciela N�jera Mendoza '14 and Stellamarris Padilla '14 received two of the three scholarships awarded to graduate students by the UCLA Latino Alumni Association at the organization's 20th Anniversary Scholarship & Alumni Awards Gala.
UCLA Law Student Wins First Prize in 2011 Tax Scholarship Writing Competition
michael BehRens '11 won fiRst pRize in the 2011 Tannenwald Writing Competition for his corporate tax paper on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission entitled "Citizens United, Tax Policy, and Corporate Governance." Behrens, whose paper submission was written while he was attending UCLA Law and was sponsored by Professor Steven Bank, received a cash prize of $5,000. The writing competition is sponsored by the Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and The American College of Tax Counsel, and is named after the late Tax Court Judge Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Law students submit papers on any federal or state tax-related topic.
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trust us, and it's a way for them to be involved in the legal system instead of trying to live outside of it." UCLA Law students provide direct client services. Every Wednesday evening, the students set up tables, chairs, laptops and printers along the sidewalk and prepare to aid their clients however they can. From printing the appropriate legal forms to finding court-ordered programs, the students sit alongside an attorney and help solve their clients' legal dilemmas. As a result, the line of homeless clients seeking help stretches down the block and around the corner every week. "The clinic is just one of the many ways UCLA Law offers the ability to get involved in the community," said Blake Lawless '14. "I wanted to get outside of a classroom setting, and it's nice to see how the law can be applied to day-to-day life and how it affects different subsects of people. For me, connecting our clients to the resources they wouldn't otherwise have is really gratifying."
Every Wednesday evening on the corner of Sycamore Avenue and Romaine Street in West Hollywood, UCLA Law students work to convert the sidewalk into a help center for the homeless. Working as part of the UCLA Mobile Clinic, a studentrun, street-based effort, students provide basic legal, medical and social support services to the homeless in West Hollywood and Hollywood. The clinic is a unique collaboration among law students, medical students, students at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and undergraduates, in partnership with the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition. UCLA School of Law students initiated the legal services branch of the Mobile Clinic in 2008 to integrate high quality legal services with the clinic's medical and social services. "Our clients are generally homeless people with myriad legal needs," said Katie Roddy '14, one of the clinic legal coordinators. "We have some clients who come back regularly. They
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Many of the clients greet the students warmly by name, wait in line and pick up where they left off the previous week, as the student follows up on their issue and advises on the next step toward a resolution. The students assist with matters such as how to handle court appearances or pay for tickets. They handle intake and referrals, provide information on social security and food stamps and help clients fill out benefit forms. "The first year of law school is very litigation-focused and this experience gives you a lot of client interaction, which is great preparation for after law school," Roddy said. "It's refreshing to do something that actually makes a difference without being graded." The Mobile Clinic is part of UCLA School of Law's El Centro Legal Clinics (El Centro). Supported by the Office of Public Interest Programs, El Centro is the law school's studentcoordinated network of volunteer legal aid clinics. The largest student organization at UCLA School of Law, it consists of approximately fourteen individual clinics. Each clinic partners with at least one local public interest organization or private attorneys to provide services to community members in need. The clinics focus on issues related to education, homelessness, HIV/AIDS, immigration, juvenile justice, landlord/ tenant rights and workers' rights. El Centro was named UCLA Community Program of the Year in October 2010.
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David J. Epstein Speaker Series Addresses Homeless Veterans' and Prisoners' Rights
The firsT program in the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy 2011�2012 speaker series addressed the rights of the 8,200 homeless veterans in Los Angeles, half of whom are chronically mentally disabled. Moderated by Acting Professor Allison Hoffman, the program included a panel discussion of the federal class action, Valentini v. Shinseki. Three of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, Professor Gary Blasi, Elly Kugler '10 and Melissa Tyner of the Inner City Law Center, spoke about the litigation and gave an overview of the issues. The second program in the series focused on the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Plata, requiring California to reduce its prisoner population. The panelists, including Professor Sharon Dolovich and Kelly Knapp '07 of the Prison Law Office, explored Plata's impact. Knapp described the background of the case, and Professor Dolovich discussed the Eighth Amendment implications of the decision. The panelists discussed prisoners' rights litigation and prison mental health care in particular and more generally addressed prison reform.
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UCLA Law's Empirical Legal Scholars Association Hosts Inaugural Conference
The UCLa sChooL of Law empiriCaL LegaL sChoLars assoCiaTion (ELSA) hosted the First Annual Western Empirical Legal Studies Conference in February. The conference provided law and graduate students with a forum to present their empirical legal research. Students in law schools and social science departments from the U.S. and Germany presented 18 papers on topics ranging from business law to criminal justice, housing segregation to employment discrimination and public policy. Professor Samuel Bray gave the keynote address on "The Empirical Assumptions in `Announcing Remedies.'" Led by Joseph Doherty, director of UCLA Law's Empirical Research Group, the ELSA raises awareness of the value of empirical research and creates opportunities for students to develop their research skills, present their findings and meet practitioners who use empirical data.
Third Annual Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Colloquium
DUring The spring 2012 semesTer, the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program presented its third annual Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Colloquium, organized by Professor Russell Korobkin. Scholars in the field from around the nation addressed topics such as dispute system design and building good working relationships with opposing counsel in their presentations. The speakers included: Corinne Bendersky, UCLA Anderson School of Management; Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute; John M. Lande, University of Missouri School of Law; Janet Martinez, Stanford University Law School; Carrie Menkel-Meadow, University of California, Irvine Law School; Janice Nadler, Northwestern University School of Law; Leonard L. Riskin, University of Florida Levin College of Law; and Thomas Stipanowich, Pepperdine University School of Law.
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Commencement 2012
On May 11, 2012, more than 450 UCLA School of Law students joined the alumni community as they were awarded J.D. and LL.M. degrees at the school's 61st annual commencement ceremony. It was a celebration not only of their achievement of this major milestone but also of the impact that is now possible in their future careers. In her welcoming remarks, Dean Rachel F. Moran shared her thoughts on the importance of the graduates' chosen profession. She cited the roles historically played by lawyers in founding and strengthening the nation with a dedication to public service, including during the Great Depression and the civil rights movement. She reflected on the public law school tradition of "training citizen-lawyers who can be agents of change and guardians of the good," reminding the graduates of the transformative power of law in advancing common interests and strengthening the social compact. "As you join the profession's ranks today, I encourage you to remain committed to the traditions of excellence, innovation, access and service that are central to UCLA Law's identity. These are the principles that will give meaning to your life in the law--principles that link privilege to obligation," Dean Moran said.
"... I encourage you to remain committed to the traditions of excellence, innovation, access and service that are central to UCLA Law's identity. These are the principles that will give meaning to your life in the law-- principles that link privilege to obligation."
Commencement speaker Chai Feldblum, commissioner of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, addressed the graduates and shared lessons from her 30-year career. She spoke on achieving social justice as lawyers, explaining her belief that three variables must converge to accomplish any social justice goal: law, policies in practice and social norms. She also encouraged the graduates to take on a leadership role in their communities in order to help move toward justice and equality, pursuing their own unique visions of how society should be changed. "As lawyers, you now have an additional identity--and with it, an amazing role that you can play," Commissioner Feldblum said. "You can be part of the actual creation of law--whether through work with legislatures, agencies or courts. You can help ensure that laws are absorbed by organizations in their policies in practice, and you can be a leader in helping to shape voluntary practices in the absence of law. And finally, you can be part of shaping and changing social norms."
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UCLA Law Celebrates 2012 Alumni of the Year
UCLA SChooL of LAw CeLebrAted the achievements of Melanie Cook '78 and Ronald L. Brown '79, the 2012 Alumni of the Year, at a luncheon in May held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Cook, a partner at the entertainment law firm of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, received the Professional Achievement award. Brown, chief of the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office, was honored with the award for Public and Community Service. "It is a privilege to pay tribute to Melanie and Ron, two of our most accomplished alumni, who have used their law degrees to benefit our profession and our community," said Dean Rachel F. Moran. "We are very proud of their commitment to excellence. They truly embody the spirit of our school." Melanie Cook specializes in representing actors, writers, directors and producers. She was the first woman honored as Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by the Beverly Hills Bar Association, and is frequently included on Hollywood "power lists." She is currently a member of UCLA Law's board
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of advisors and a member of the Capital Campaign Committee. Ronald Brown is chief of the Los Angeles County Public Defender's
Office. He began his career with the Public Defender's Office in 1981, and was appointed to his current position in January 2011. He is the 10th person and the first African American to head the office since its establishment in 1914. He leads more than 700 attorneys and an extensive support staff, all dedicated to the representation of indigent clients.
Student Groups Honor Alumni
Alumni receive awards from La Raza Law Student Association, Black Law Students Association and Asian Pacific Islander Law Students Association
the UCLA LA rAzA LAw StUdent ASSoCiAtion honored two UCLA Law alumni at the annual La Raza Alumni Dinner: Hern�n Vera '94, president and chief executive officer of Public Counsel; and Gladis Molina '06, managing attorney at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. The annual reception, which was held in February, brings La Raza alumni together with students, who have the opportunity to learn about their experiences in various areas of the law. In April, UCLA School of Law's Black Law Students Association honored Ronald Brown '79, the first African American public defender in Los Angeles, for his commitment to providing legal representation to the poor and marginalized communities. He was honored at the organization's annual Solidarity Dinner, which this year focused on "Building Stronger Communities." Also in April, the Asian Pacific Islander Law Students Association (APILSA) and Asian Pacific American Law Journal (APALJ) honored Robin Toma '88, executive director of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, as their alumnus of the year. He was honored at the APILSA-APALJ Alumni Banquet.
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UCLA Law hosts first Annual Moot Court Cyber Crimes Competition
thiS Spring, UCLA LAw'S Moot CoUrt honorS progrAM hosted the First Annual UCLA Moot Court Cyber Crimes Competition. The event, which is the first-ever national moot court competition devoted to cyber crime issues, attracted distinguished judges and entrants from across the United States and Canada. "We are especially excited to provide this learning opportunity in a developing and crucially important area of the law," said Thomas W. Holm, director of the Lawyering Skills Clinical Program. The specific problem argued by the competitors covered the intersection of the Fourth Amendment and the Stored Communication Act. In addition to UCLA School of Law, teams from Chapman University, George Washington University (overall winners), Santa Clara University and UC Davis participated. UCLA Law student Brent Westcott '13 was runner-up for the best brief in the competition. The competition was sponsored by Norton Symantec, which provides AntiVirus, Internet security and anti-spyware products for the home and business, and the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB), a not-for-profit society that seeks to enhance international partnerships among public and private professionals to prevent and combat crimes in cyberspace.
Dean Rachel F. Moran and Dean Zhen-min Wang sign the exchange agreement.
UCLA Law Offers Study Abroad in China
UCLA SChooL of LAw And tSinghUA UniverSity SChooL of LAw in Beijing, China have signed an exchange agreement that will facilitate UCLA Law student study abroad at Tsinghua and Tsinghua student study at UCLA Law, as well as a faculty exchange. The agreement is part of the law school's Foreign Legal Study and Exchange Program, through which students gain exposure to international law and the legal systems and cultures of other nations. The law school now offers students foreign study opportunities through partnerships with eleven other leading academic institutions in Europe, Asia, Israel, Australia and South America.
Dean's Roundtables
eACh yeAr, the deAn of UCLA LAw invites distinguished guests to campus to participate in informal, roundtable discussions with students. The guests discuss legal issues, their careers and legal education, and then take questions from the students. This year's guests included: Stephen Bershad '66, chairman, GSI Group; director, Axsys Technologies Kirk Dillman '83, partner, McKool Smith Hennigan Simon Furie '92, managing director, Lazard Richard Fybel '71, associate justice, 4th District Court of Appeal Douglas McCormick '95, assistant U.S. attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California Robert Offer '92, partner, Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern LLP Dorothy Wolpert '76, principal, Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg
Professor Ronald Dworkin Discusses Physics and Religion
ronALd dworkin, UCLA distinguished scholar in residence, as well as professor of philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer professor of law at New York University, spent two weeks at UCLA Law in February. As part of his annual visit, which is sponsored by the UCLA Program in Law and Philosophy, he presented a public lecture titled "A Religion for Physics." Professor Dworkin, who is widely regarded as one of the leading philosophers of law, also discussed his paper, "Is There Really a Right to Religious Freedom?" at a Legal Theory Workshop.
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Symposium Addresses Spending revenue from California's new Cap-and-trade program
in ApriL, UCLA SChooL of LAw hoSted "California's Billion Dollar Question: How to Spend Revenue from the State's New Cap-and-Trade Program." Sponsored by the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, the Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Policy Program and the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, the symposium addressed key questions surrounding revenue allocation decisions under the state's landmark cap-and-trade program, which gets underway this year with the first public auction slated for November. Panelists, including Cara Horowitz, the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation executive director of the Emmett Center, and M. Rhead Enion, Emmett/Frankel fellow, shared their views on how to spend cap-and-trade revenue and discussed the legal constraints on the spending and how the revenue decisions should be made, among other topics. UCLA LAW MAGAZINE |
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WilliamsInstituteHosts 11thAnnualUpdate"FairPlay?"
Conference addresses LGBT civic participation and political process
(L to R) NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino and Williams Institute Legal Scholarship Director Nan Hunter
(L to R) Williams Institute Distinguished Scholar and U.S. Census Scientific Advisory Committee Member Gary Gates, U.S. Census Director Robert Groves, Williams Institute Executive Director and UCLA Law Assistant Dean Brad Sears, Williams Institute Research Director Lee Badgett
In April, the Williams Institute held its 11th Annual Update, "Fair Play? LGBT People, Civic Participation and the Political Process." Increasingly, LGBT people participate openly in every branch of government, as elected officials and judges as well as voters and jurors. However, research shows that the LGBT community still faces considerable challenges due to prejudice and discrimination. This year's conference evaluated the progress LGBT people have made, and the barriers to full civic participation that remain. Expert panels examined emerging trends in public opinion about issues affecting LGBT people, such as employment discrimination, marriage and adoption. Panelists discussed an increase in LGBT visibility in the courthouses and the effect on judges and jurors, as well as ballot initiatives and LGBT rights.
In his opening keynote address, U.S. Census Director Robert Groves spoke on the unprecedented outreach to the LGBT community during the 2010 Census count, which-- for the first time--reported same-sex couples who identified as spouses. The Williams Institute collaborated with the Census Bureau in doing this outreach and provided research and analysis that supported the reporting of same-sex spouses. The institute continues to be the leading research center in the country analyzing Census data about same-sex couples. In a closing keynote address, Civil Rights Law Expert and NYU Law Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law Kenji Yoshino addressed the question of whether LGBT people are equal participants in the political process or are still relegated to second class citizenship by discrimination and bias.
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This year, UCLA Law hosted the Eighth Annual Williams Institute Moot Court Competition. A record thirty-eight teams from law schools across the country competed in the only national competition dedicated exclusively to the areas of sexual orientation and gender identity law. With Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Christine Durham, City of Houston Municipal Courts Associate Judge Phyllis R. Frye and United States District Court Central District of California Former Judge George P. Schiavelli presiding, the final two teams argued privacy versus disclosure issues in ballot issue campaigns, and claims of judicial bias based on gay identity. UCLA Law's team consisting of Evan Woolley '12 and Jason Pang '13 prevailed, and Evan Woolley won the award for Best Oral Advocate. Afterward, New Jersey Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg delivered special remarks at the Williams Institute Annual Gala Reception.
(L to R) Williams Institute Founders Council Member Brondi Borer and David Sanders
(L to R) Annual Update Speakers Greg Lewis and Brian Powell
(L to R) Winning Team Members from UCLA Law Evan Woolley '12 and Jason Pang '13
(L to R) Williams Institute Founders Council Members John McDonald and Norman Blachford
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WilliamsInstituteResearch CitedinNinthCircuitDecision ToOverturnProp.8
In February, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Proposition 8, which enacted a ban on marriage for same-sex couples in California, was unconstitutional. Williams Institute research was cited in the opinion. Specifically cited was the report, Marriage, Registration and Dissolution by Same-Sex Couples in the U.S., which found that approximately 18,000 same-sex couples married in the state prior to Proposition 8 and 48,157 couples entered registered domestic partnerships during the same time.
Same-sex couples per 1,000 households, by county (adjusted) Source: United States Census Snapshot: 2010 (The Williams Institute)
WilliamsInstituteReleases 2010CensusSnapshotofthe LGBTCommunity
Data show 20% of same-sex couples identify as spouses
ResearchersattheWilliams InstituteExamineLGBTYouth Homelessness
In the summer of 2012, the Williams Institute published a report on LGBT youth homelessness. During the past 10 years, the percentage of homeless youth providers serving LGBT clients has increased from 82% to 94%, with providers indicating that 40% of their clients identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Nearly seven in 10 respondents indicated that family rejection was a major factor contributing to LGBT youth homelessness, making it the most cited factor. More than half (54%) of respondents indicated that abuse in their family was another important factor contributing to LGBT homelessness. Additionally, more than 75% of responding agencies reported working with transgender youth in the past year. Findings from the survey demonstrated that many LGBT youth are at high risk of homelessness, often as a result of family rejection and abuse.
According to analysis by the Williams Institute, data from the 2010 Decennial Census revealed that 132,000 (20%) of the nearly 650,000 same-sex couples in the U.S. identify as spouses. More than one in six same-sex couples (17%) are raising children, with childrearing more common among couples who identified as spouses (31%) compared to unmarried partners (14%). Led by Williams Distinguished Scholar Gary Gates, the Williams Institute has been the leader in the dissemination and analysis of U.S. Census data on the LGBT community. Census Snapshots are published for all 50 states and Washington, D.C., providing demographic and geographic information about same-sex couples and same-sex couples raising children. The reports continue to be a critical resource for informing the many national, state and local debates about LGBT rights. For more information, visit: http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu.
Report published in collaboration with Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Fund and the Palette Fund
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WilliamsInstitute WelcomesNewResearchers
The Williams Institute welcomes new Senior Scholar of Public Policy Scott Barclay, who will focus on LGBT public opinion-related research, and Public Opinion Project Director Andrew R. Flores, who will launch a new research project on public opinion data and reScott Barclay search related to LGBT people and issues. Scott is the head of the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University. From 2009 through 2011, he was a program director for the Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation. Scott received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and he completed his undergraduate degree in Australia. His current research project explores the interplay of political, demographic, cultural and social movement factors that influence legislative and judicial action around lesbian and gay rights since 1971. Andrew is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of California at Riverside, where he earned an M.A. in Political Science. While at UC Riverside, Andrew was a Eugene Cota-Robles and Graduate Research Mentorship Program fellow; he and a co-author also received Andrew Flores an award from the Pacific Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. His research includes questions of gays and lesbians in the American democratic process, from intra-group politics and public opinion to representation.
New LL.M. specialization will focus on LGBT and international human rights issues
This past year, the Williams Institute greatly expanded its research on international LGBT law and policy issues. Examples of this work include providing research support for litigation challenging India's sodomy law and studies to counter myths and stereotypes included in proposed legislation in Uganda that would severely criminalize homosexuality, including the death penalty. In addition, the Williams Institute submitted a memorandum to the Australian Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee that concluded that Australia's Marriage Equality Amendment Bill would boost the country's economy by $161 million over three years. The Williams Institute also co-sponsored a historic high-level conference between countries in the Balkans, the European Commission and the Council of Europe to discuss measures to combat discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity in the Balkans. Former Williams Institute Visiting Scholar and adviser to the Prime Minister of Montenegro on human rights Jovan Kojici served as the principal organizer of the conference. In the upcoming year, the Williams Institute will launch a new LL.M. specialization focused on LGBT issues and international human rights. The institute has submitted grant proposals to study the economic impacts of LGBT-related policies on developing economies, and to develop questions to measure the size of the LGBT population in Southeast Asia.
Seventh Williams Institute Law Fellow placed in U.S. Law School tenure-track position to teach Sexuality Law
Michael Boucai, 2012 Sears law teaching fellow, will begin his position as associate professor at SUNY Buffalo Law School. In addition to Sexuality and the Law, Professor Boucai will teach courses in criminal law and family law.
The Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellowship program is designed to support new scholars interested in teaching and researching sexual orientation and gender identity law. During the two year fellowship, fellows have an opportunity to write a law review article, teach courses on sexual orientation law and work closely with Williams Institute faculty and staff. The Sears Law Teaching Fellowship was made possible through generous endowment gifts by Jim Hooker and Chuck Williams.
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Reunions 2012!
The exTenDeD Law sChooL famiLy gaThereD in May to celebrate alumni from the classes of '62, '67, '72, '77, '82, '87, '92, '97, '02 and '07. Alumni reconnected and shared their stories and fond law school memories at a special reunion reception and intimate dinners for each class. The law school also hosted the third annual Golden Reunion in November, a special event for alumni celebrating 50th or higher class reunions. More than 60 people attended the reunion luncheon, including representatives from each celebrating class. Reunions 2012 marked the third year of the Reunion Challenge, an opportunity for alumni to honor their reunion class with a financial commitment to the law school. The Reunion Challenge continues to grow, bringing in more than $2 million dollars for the first time this year. Congratulations to the class of '67 for raising the most money, and to the class of '92 for earning the highest participation rate of all reunion class giving. We would like to thank Jeffrey Silberman '82, national Reunion Challenge chair, and the reunion committees for their dedication in making Reunions 2012 a great success.
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Joe Ingber '60 was featured in a Los Angeles Times article on June 27, 2012 about the special way he pays tribute to his late wife, Eileen. On her birthdays and on the anniversary of the day she died of cancer in 2002, he places an ad to her in the newspaper. Ken Ziffren '65, of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "corporate dealmakers" category.
Lon Sobel '69 recently retired from Southwestern Law School, where he was a professor and the director of its summerabroad program in London. He hasn't completely retired, though. During the spring 2013 semester, he will be a visiting professor at UCLA School of Law, where he will teach a course on the taxation of entertainers, athletes and artists. And, during the summer of 2013, he will be teaching International Entertainment Law in London, in a University of San Diego Law School study-abroad program. At long last, he has followed through with an interest he developed during his senior year at Berkeley in 1966: he learned how to fly an airplane and got his private pilot's certificate. He and his wife Carol live in Santa Monica and have two daughters, two granddaughters and a grandson--all of whom he hopes to take flying, though not all at once, because the plane that he flies seats only four.
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Skip Brittenham '70, of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "talent dealmakers" category.
Nelson Rising '67, chairman of Rising Realty Partners, has been appointed chair of the designated local authority for the former redevelopment agency in Los Angeles. He also became the chair of the UCLA School of Law Board of Advisors.
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Keenan Behrle '69
Keenan Behrle '69, executive vice president of Westminster Capital Inc., a private investment firm, was honored with the UCLA Award in University Service at ceremonies held on campus on May 4, 2012. As part of a tradition that began in 1946, the UCLA Awards are bestowed by the UCLA Alumni Association and pay tribute to alumni who manifest outstanding achievement in their professional fields and have demonstrated a commitment to excellence through their contributions to society. Behrle practiced law with the Pacht, Ross firm in Los Angeles prior to joining Westminster, and he has held many leadership positions at UCLA. He served as president and chair of the UCLA Foundation and currently is a member of the board of directors, and he also served as chair of the UCLA Annual Fund. In addition, he was vice president of governmental affairs for the UCLA Alumni Association Board of Directors in the 1980s and sat on the alumni board again more recently. He was on the board of visitors of the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, was a member of the UCLA School of Law Alumni Association Board of Directors and became a member of the UCLA School of Public Affairs Dean's Policy Circle.
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Audrey B. Collins '77
The Honorable Audrey B. Collins '77 received two awards honoring her distinguished career in public a notable career on the bench. She also received the 2012 Joan Dempsey Klein Distinguished Jurist service. She received the Los Angeles Bar Association's 2012 Outstanding Jurist Award, which recognizes Award for her longstanding service and inspiration to the women lawyers of California. Collins became chief judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California in 2009, after being appointed to the court in 1994 by President Clinton.
Jan L. Handzlik '70, of Venable's Los Angeles office, received the California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Award in the category of Criminal Law. He was recognized for winning a stunning reversal for his clients, Lindsey Manufacturing and the company president Keith Lindsey, in the first trial and conviction of a corporation in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case.
Skip Miller '72, of Miller Barondess, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "litigation" category.
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Marc Seltzer '72 has been honored with the Bruce I. Hochman Maimonides Torch of Justice Award by the Jewish Federation's Legal Division. Seltzer has been a partner at Susman Godfrey L.L.P. since he opened the firm's Los Angeles office in 1998.
Antonia Hernandez '74 was presented with the "OHTLI" award by the Government of Mexico during a ceremony to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Puebla (Cinco de Mayo). The national award acknowledges contributions to the empowerment of Mexican and Mexican-American communities in the United States. Antonia is president and CEO of California Community Foundation and former president and general counsel for Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF).
Dale Kinsella '74, of Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "litigation" category. Tom Oldham '74, the John H. Freeman professor of law at the University of Houston, received the University of Houston's Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award. Oldham's recent publications include a book review published in the Journal of Law & Religion and a critique of current American rules regarding when to enforce premarital agreements at divorce, published in the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy.
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John Frankenheimer '73, of Loeb & Loeb, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "corporate dealmakers" category.
Julian W. Bailey '74 was appointed to a judgeship in the Orange County Superior Court by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Bailey has served as a superior court referee for the Orange County Superior Court since 2011 and previously served as a juvenile court referee for the Orange County Juvenile Court.
James D. C. Barrall '75 was cited in a front page New York Times article, titled "Citigroup's Chief Rebuffed on Pay by Shareholders," which was published on April 18, 2012.
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the field of taxation law. He was honored with the award from the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Taxation Section at the annual Dana Latham Award Luncheon on June 1, 2012, held at the Omni Los Department and serves as chair of the charitable sector practice. Angeles Hotel. Newman is a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP where he heads the firm's Tax David Wheeler Newman '77 received the prestigious Dana Latham Award for lifetime achievement in
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John Branca '75, a partner at Ziffren Brittenham LLP, was honored with the 2012 Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI) Service Award at the GRAMMY Foundation's 14th Annual Entertainment Law Initiative Luncheon & Scholarship Presentation on February 10, 2012 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. He was also named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "talent dealmakers" category.
Jack S. Martin '76 announced his retirement from the Boeing Company after a career in aerospace spanning 34 years. He also would like to give thanks to his wife Sonia C. Martin, who passed away on December 24, 2009 after a heroic battle with cancer, for a wonderful 27 years of marriage.
Howard King '77, of King Holmes Paterno & Berliner, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "litigation" category.
Adrian Andrade '76 was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. to the 37th District Agricultural Association, Santa Maria Fair Park. Andrade has been the owner of Adrian S. Andrade and Associates since 1991.
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Bradley Coates '76 recently published the fourth edition of his award-winning book Divorce with Decency: The Complete How-To Handbook and Survivor's Guide to the Legal, Emotional, Economic, and Social Issues. Bradley is the founder of Coates and Frey, Hawaii's largest divorce and family law firm, and he now serves as of counsel to the firm. He is a popular author and international lecturer on human and romantic relationships and the "dynamics of divorce."
Melanie Cook '78, of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. She was included in the "talent dealmakers" category. Melanie was also named National Reunion Challenge Chair for UCLA Law's 2013 Reunion Challenge. Gary Stiffelman '79, of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "talent dealmakers" category.
Bruce G. Iwasaki '76 has been appointed to a judgeship in the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Iwasaki has been a partner at Lim Ruger and Kim LLP since 2006.
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Ruth Fisher '80, of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. She was included in the "corporate dealmakers" category.
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George W. Abele '90 Nancy L. Abell '79 Steven Abram '79 Nabil L. Abu-Assal '88 Allison-Claire Acker '88 David J. Aleshire '75 Peter J. Anderson '79 Ronald W. Anteau '65 Don Mike Anthony '63 Alan P. Block '89 Todd W. Bonder '84 Lloyd A. Bookman '79 Susan J. Booth '91 Gary M. Borofsky '70 John G. Branca '75 Vikram Brar '92 Harland W. Braun '67 Robert E. Braun '81 Martin J. Brill '72 Roy M. Brisbois '72 Harry M. Brittenham '70 Clare Bronowski '83 Steven Brower '80 Patrick S. Brown '95 James R. Brueggemann '75 Bradley W. Brunon '68 Richard J. Burdge, Jr. '79 Robert A. Bush '75 Patrick J. Cain '82 Andrew W. Caine '83 Kevin K. Callahan '84 Mario Camara '73 Mark D. Campbell '95 Renee L. Campbell '80 Scott H. Campbell '87 A. Barry Cappello '65 Eric Carlson '97 Gretchen Carpenter '95 Laura J. Carroll '84 Douglas P. Carstens '97 Arnoldo Casillas '91 Joel B. Castro '75 Jan Chatten-Brown '71 Frank W. Chen '88 Arthur R. Chenen '70 Frank Christine, III '81 Stephen E. Claman '59 Gary A. Clark '75 Bruce A. Clemens '74
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Michael Gendler '80, of Gendler & Kelly, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "talent dealmakers" category.
Brian J. Appel '85 Alan D. Aronson '87 Michael H. Artan '80 Lane J. Ashley '76 James R. Asperger '78 Terry D. Avchen '77 Wesley H. Avery '91 Douglas A. Bagby '71 Brad N. Baker '75 Charles F. Barker '76 Craig S. Barnes '85 Willie R. Barnes '59 James D.C. Barrall '75 Jeffrey S. Barron '75 John Bartos '73 Paul L. Basile, Jr. '71 John S. Battenfeld '85 Michael L. Baum '85 Gerald C. Benezra '61 Alan G. Benjamin '77 Fred G. Bennett '73 Frederick B. Benson '75 Donald I. Berger '82 Jeffrey A. Berman '71 Laurence M. Berman '80 Fredric Bernstein '76 Bennett A. Bigman '84 Terry W. Bird '70 Richard M. Birnholz '90 Christopher P. Bisgaard '72 William M. Bitting '65
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Nancy L. Haggerty '80, partner with Michael Best and Friedrich, was recently recognized as a leader in the field of Real Estate by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.
Schuyler Moore '81, of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "corporate dealmakers" category.
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Marcy Morris '81, of Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austin Mandelbaum Morris & Klein, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. She was included in the "talent dealmakers" category.
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Michael L. Wilhelm '81 has been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer for a fourth time during his legal career. Wilhelm is shareholder of Walter & Wilhelm Law Group and he represents businesses in a wide array of commercial matters.
Myron "Mike" D. Moye '84 has been appointed Labor and Employment section head of Hanson Bridgett in Northern California. Mike has been practicing labor and employment law with Hanson Bridgett for more than 14 years, and has been a partner since 2003.
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Sam Fischer '82, of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "talent dealmakers" category.
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Betsy R. Rosenthal '84 published her first novel, LOOKING FOR ME... in this great big family, released in April. The novel is a look at the life of Betsy's mother, Edith Paul, who was one of twelve siblings growing up in Depression-era Baltimore.
Robin Stutman '82 has been appointed as the new chief administrative hearing officer for the U.S. Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review. Stutman has served as the agency's general counsel since August 2009. Angela Brock-Kyle '83 was named one of the "25 Influential Black Women in Business" by the Network Journal. She was profiled in the special March issue of the magazine and formally honored during Women's History Month at the 14th Annual 25 Influential Black Women in Business Awards Luncheon.
Geoff Drucker '85 published a new book, Resolving 21st Century Disputes: Best Practices for a Fast-Paced World, in January. He began a new job this fall as manager of dispute resolution services for the American Health Lawyers Association. Geoff lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife, Michele, stepdaughter, Hannah and son, Jackson.
James M. Burns '86 has joined Dickinson Wright PLLC in Washington, D.C. as a member and co-leader of the Antitrust practice. Prior to joining Dickinson Wright, Burns was the chair of the Antitrust Practice Group at Williams Mullen PC. Jonathan Storper '86, of the San Francisco office of Hanson Bridgett, received the California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Award in the litigation category. As a result of his team's hard work, two sister bills, Flexible Purpose Corporations (SB201) and Benefit Corporations (AB361) make it possible for California businesses to fold goals of sustainability and social morality into their missions. Stephen Vogelsang '86 was included in the 2012 Florida Super Lawyers list under the Estate Planning & Probate practice area. Vogelsang is a shareholder in Gunster's West Palm Beach office.
Andrew Downs '83, of Bullivant Houser Bailey PC, was recognized as a leader in the area of insurance law in the latest edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.
David A. Thompson '83 was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. as associate justice of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Three. Thompson has served as a judge for the Orange County Superior Court since 1998.
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Marc A. Fenster '95 Henry Fenton '69 Michael D. Fernhoff '78 Donald C. Fesler '73 William Finestone '69 Robert W. Fischer, Jr. '73 Samuel N. Fischer '82 Mary-Lynne Fisher '76 Ruth E. Fisher '80 James P. Fogelman '92 Janice Fogg '89 John T. Frankenheimer '73 Barry V. Freeman '62 Manley Freid '62 Gary N. Frischling '87 David R. Gabor '89 Barbara R. Gadbois '85 Jon J. Gallo '67 Robert G. Garrett '75 Kenneth C. Gibbs '74 J. Paul Gignac '86 Gary L. Gilbert '71 Andrew M. Gilford '89 David I. Gindler '84 Jack C. Glantz '61 Bruce S. Glickfeld '72 Steven Glickman '82 Frida P. Glucoft '78 Robert S. Goldberg '63 John B. Golper '75 Marlene D. Goodfried '79 Richard C. Goodman '70 Eric B. Gordon '90 Dmitry Gorin '95 Joseph G. Gorman, Jr. '66 Brian G. Gough '74 William D. Gould '63 Richard J. Grabowski '86 Cindy Joy Weinstein Graff '79 Bruce J. Graham '83 Norman H. Green '79 Arthur N. Greenberg '52 Bruce R. Greene '76 Irving H. Greines '66 Arnold W. Gross '73 Joel M. Grossman '79 Susan Grueneberg '79 Richard E. Guilford '64 Barbara Enloe Hadsell '78 Timi A. Hallem '72 James I. Ham '81
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John F. Gardner '87 has joined Fitzgerald Abbott & Beardsley as a partner and co-chair of the Business and Corporate Transactions Group in the Oakland and Walnut Creek offices. He was previously a partner and chair of the Corporate and Real Estate Transactions Group at Carroll, Burdick & McDonough.
Walter Cochran-Bond '74 Ram F. Cogan '87 Brett J. Cohen '85 Bruce M. Cohen '78 David M. Cohen '92 Gary J. Cohen '74 Jeffrey H. Cohen '88
Timothy McOsker '87 has been appointed to the designated local authority for the former redevelopment agency in Los Angeles. McOsker has been a partner at Mayer Brown since 2008.
Leslie A. Cohen '80 Rick Cohen '77 Curtis A. Cole '71 Thomas H. Coleman '65 Melanie Cook '78
Michelle Banks '88 was featured in Morrison & Foerster's "Alumni Spotlight" for her work as executive vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer at Gap, Inc., where she is responsible for a staff of more than 100, including 40 in-house lawyers. Carlos Goodman '88, of Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman Schenkman & Goodman, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "talent dealmakers" category.
Philip E. Cook '90 Bruce E. Cooperman '77 Penny M. Costa '83 Jeffrey W. Cowan '91 Richard A. Curnutt '64 Allan B. Cutrow '71 Milford W. Dahl, Jr. '65 Michael A.K. Dan '69 Peter A. Davidson '77 Jeffrey D. Davine '85 Karl de Costa '96 Linda N. Deitch '00 Robert L. Dell Angelo '92 William F. Delvac '84 Patrick W. Dennis '82 V. James DeSimone '85 Richard K. Diamond '76 Roger Jon Diamond '67 Kirk D. Dillman '83 Bruce E. Dizenfeld '78 William P. Donovan, Jr. '91 Steven Drapkin '76 Lee A. Dresie '82 Kathleen H. Drummy '77 David J. Duchrow '82 Jeffrey W. Dulberg '95 Thomas P. Dunlap '74 Aaron S. Dyer '92 John D. Early '93 Donald S. Eisenberg '75 Dennis M. Elber '76 Gregory Ellis '85 William H. Emer '72 Richard W. Esterkin '76 Peter Q. Ezzell '72 Gregory C. Fant '76 Gregg A. Farley '84 James R. Felton '88
Jason Sloane '88, of Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "talent dealmakers" category.
William K. Enger '89, a partner in Wilson Elser's Los Angeles office, has earned his certification as a legal specialist in admiralty and maritime law. He is one of 17 attorneys in Southern California who was part of the State Bar of California's inaugural class with this designated specialty, which is the first certification program in admiralty and maritime law west of the Mississippi. Enger is a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, as well as the vice president of the Marine Underwriters of Southern California. He has served on the State Bar of California's Admiralty and Maritime Law Advisory Commission since 2009.
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Terry D. Garnett '90 has been named a partner in Goodwin Procter's Patent Litigation Practice. He will focus on high-stakes patent litigation and licensing matters with an emphasis on the information technology industry.
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Robert Offer '92, of Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern, was named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2012 "Power Lawyers" list, which highlights the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America. He was included in the "talent dealmakers" category.
Kathy Bazoian Phelps '91 has co-authored a book with the Honorable Steven Rhodes titled The Ponzi Book: A Legal Resource for Unraveling Ponzi Schemes. Published by LexisNexis, it is a resource for a comprehensive understanding of the competing rights, claims and defenses of all of the parties impacted by a Ponzi scheme. Says UCLA Law Professor Kenneth Klee, the book is "... an invaluable resource for lawyers and judges enmeshed in the thicket of Ponzi scheme litigation. Clearly written and accessible, the book provides key insights into Ponzi cases and how they differ from ordinary bankruptcy litigation. I am glad I have the book in my library and have already used it in my Ponzi scheme cases." Read more about the book at www. theponzibook.com.
Brette Simon '94 has joined Bryan Cave LLP as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles offices. She will practice with the firm's Transactions Client Service Group.
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Laurence Solov '94 has been named president and CEO of Breitbart News Network. Solov has served on the company's board of directors since its inception.
James B. Conte '92 has been honored by Chicago Lawyer in its selection of "Leading Lawyers - Intellectual Property Law." Following the publication of Conte's selection for Chicago Lawyer's list, American Registry seconded the honor and added him to the "Registry of Business Excellence(TM)." Conte is a partner in the Chicago office of Husch Blackwell and is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Department.
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Ruth Bermudez Montenegro '92 was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. to a judgeship in the Imperial County Superior Court. Montenegro has served as assistant county counsel for Imperial County since 2011. She fills the vacancy created by the death of Judge Barrett J. Foerster '67.
Peter A. Hernandez '95 has been appointed to a judgeship in the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Hernandez served as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California since 1999.
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Steven Kirby '73 Alexander W. Kirkpatrick '74 Dean J. Kitchens '78 Gerald A. Klein '82 Howard S. Klein '61 Kenneth A. Kleinberg '67 Howard M. Knee '72 Deborah P. Koeffler '75 Howard Kollitz '73 Ronald R. Kollitz '74 Glen E. Kraemer '87
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Mette Kurth '96, a bankruptcy and restructuring partner in Arent Fox's Los Angeles office, has been named one of California's Top Women Lawyers by the Daily Journal for the second year in a row. Mette was also included in The Best Lawyers in America, and she played a key role in developing the firm's West Coast restructuring team. In addition, she was recognized by the M&A Advisor for her outstanding work in the Walking Company's successful turnaround, and she has been honored as a Southern California Super Lawyer for the last seven years.
Suzanne Harris '77 Tim Harris '78 Wilmer J. Harris '90 Derek R. Havel '97 Richard W. Havel '71 Susan J. Hazard '78 Yakub Hazzard '90 Paul J. Hedlund '73 Steven A. Heimberg '83 Gregory D. Helmer '90 Darrel J. Hieber '80 Lynard C. Hinojosa '67 Paul Gordon Hoffman '76 Steven Holguin '83 Kristin L. Holland '96 Michael A. Hood '76 Michael T. Hornak '78 Susan T. House '75 Roger H. Howard '71 Boyd D. Hudson '78 Jeffrey S. Hurst '88 Richard A. Hutton '70 Andrei Iancu '96 Samuel D. Ingham, III '75 Mark Israel '86 Mark A. Ivener '67 Jeffery S. Jacobson '96 Lawrence H. Jacobson '67 Keith A. Jacoby '90 Daniel J. Jaffe '62 John M. Jameson '85 Kathleen C. Jeffries '83 Jules L. Kabat '74 Ronald M. Kabrins '63 Jonathan S. Kagan '93 Robert L. Kahan '69 Murray O. Kane '70 John C. Kappos '94 Nancy Kardon '91 David S. Karton '71 Gail Diane Kass '75 Thomas R. Kaufman '95 Ron O. Kaye '89 Barry D. Kellman '95 Michael J. Kiely '89 Christopher Kim '78 Seong H. Kim '93 Diane L. Kimberlin '76 Howard E. King '77 Dale F. Kinsella '74
Frederick H. ("Rick") Kranz, Jr. '72 Kenneth L. Kraus '71 Kenneth L. Krause '80 Richard M. Kreisler '74 Thomas R. Kreller '92 Howard D. Krepack '72 Mette H. Kurth '96 Thomas P. Lambert '71 Laura Landesman '82 Edward A. Landry '64 Wendy E. Lane '98 Dudley M. Lang '62 Timothy Lappen '75 David A. Lash '80 Amy B. Lawrence '84 Moses Lebovits '75 Amy B. Leck '70 Alexander M. Lee '96 Gail E. Lees '79 Howard N. Lehman '56 Cary B. Lerman '72 Harriet Beegun Leva '80 Leonard B. Levine '71 Sidney P. Levinson '88 Margaet Levy '75 Stanley W. Levy '65 Joshua D. Lichtman '94 Jonathan Fraser Light '81 Ethan Lipsig '74 Barrett S. Litt '69 Margaret G. Lodise '88 David M. Luboff '79 Craig Lucas '73 Elwood Lui '69 Robert W. Lundy, Jr. '75 Philip S. Magaram '61 Ralph D. Malmquist '64 S. Jerome Mandel '71 Caroline H. Mankey '96 Michael D. Marcus '67
Michael Sweet '96 has been reappointed as the Human Rights Commission Chair. He recently joined Fox Rothschild LLP in San Francisco, where he focuses his practice in the area of municipal debt restructuring and Chapter 9 filings.
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Halim Dhanidina '97 has been appointed to a judgeship in the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Dhanidina served in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office since 1998. According to the Muslim Public Affairs Council, Dhanidina will be the first Muslim-American judge ever appointed in California.
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Michelle A. Hernandez '97 was recently elected president of the New Mexico Defense Lawyers Association (NMDLA) for 2012. Hernandez is board certified in New Mexico as a health law specialist, and she currently practices at Modrall Sperling, where she specializes in the areas of healthcare, litigation, products liability, torts and personal injury.
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Darron James Flagg '98 was promoted to senior attorney at Intel Corporation. He is co-chair of Intel's pro bono program in Sacramento and is an adjunct professor at a local college. Time permitting, he still performs professionally as an operatic tenor. Visit him at www.darronflagg.com.
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Jeremy Halpern '98 has been appointed to the board of directors of Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation by Governor Deval Patrick. He is a partner in the Business Department and the director of business development for the Emerging Companies Group of Nutter McClennen & Fish.
Paul R. Lynd '99 has been named a partner at Nixon Peabody. Lynd advises and represents employers in general employment matters with an emphasis on wage and hour issues and class actions, and he is actively involved in the firm's pro bono efforts.
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Steven Pearlman'98 has been named one of the top five employment attorneys under 40 by Law360. Pearlman specializes in Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower cases at Seyfarth Shaw LLP in Los Angeles. Michael Steuch '98, a business lawyer at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell whose practice emphasizes M&A and equity/debt financing transactions, has been selected as a winner of the Annual "40 Under 40" M&A Advisor Recognition Awards - Western Region. Recognized as a "Rising Star" by Los Angeles Magazine from 20062012, Mike has extensive experience counseling a wide variety of business enterprises from their early growth stages and incremental financings through their eventual sale.
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Paul Ohm '99 will serve as a senior policy advisor at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), focusing on consumer protection and competition issues affecting the Internet and mobile markets. Ohm, who specializes in information privacy, computer crime law, intellectual property and criminal procedure, with a particular focus on building new connections between law and computer science, will take a leave of absence from his position as associate professor at the University of Colorado Law School to serve at the FTC.
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Bita Rahebi '00 has been named partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP in the firm's Los Angeles office. Daniel Callender '01 has joined Nevers, Palazzo, Packard, Wildermuth & Wynner, a full-service firm in Westlake Village, California. He continues to focus on Corporate and Business Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Litigation, Real Estate Law, Employment Law and Insurance Coverage Law.
Michael Brown '99 and his wife Melissa (Kohn) Brown (UCLA '02) welcomed a new addition to their family, Matthew Eli Brown. They also have a 2 1/2 year old daughter, Rachel Eli Brown. Brown is practicing at a small firm in Agoura Hills, Snyder Dorenfeld, specializing in civil litigation, real estate, business, construction, insurance and personal injury matters.
Melanie Chavira '01 is the new city prosecutor for Redondo Beach. Chavira was previously an assistant supervisor in the criminal division of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.
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Robert B. Orgel '81 Ben D. Orlanski '95 Edward R. Ortega '76 Kurt V. Osenbaugh '82 Stephen T. Owens '78 Joseph L. Paller, Jr. '78 Ann I. Park '87 David B. Parker '76 Peter T. Paterno '76 Andrew S. Pauly '79 Dennis L. Perez '82 Gerald Philip Peters '81 Richard T. Peters '71 John S. Peterson '81 Louis P. Petrich '65 Mark J. Phillips '79 Michael Pinchak '77 Steven R. Pingel '71 Gary Pohlson '75 Harriet S. Posner '84 Marc J. Poster '70 Scott T. Pratt '75 Anthony L. Press '86 Christopher E. Prince '95 Douglas C. Purdy '69 Lisa Greer Quateman '78 John N. Quisenberry '80 Gregg A. Rapoport '88 Barbara W. Ravitz '78 Donald M. Re '70 William John Rea, Jr. '78 Robert C. Reback '71 Angela J. Reddock '95 Jonathan Reich '84 Leland J. Reicher '75 Todd R. Reinstein '62 Bernard M. Resser '79 Kent L. Richland '71 Lynette Berg Robe '85 Daniel Rodriguez '80 John T. Rogers, Jr. '81 Martin E. Rosen '82 Gary B. Rosenbaum '87 Glenn Rothner '75 Glen A. Rothstein '95 Robert H. Rotstein '76 Terry A. Rowland '76 Dennis S. Roy '81 Sharon F. Rubalcava '75 Richard S. Ruben '75 Christopher S. Ruhland '94
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Deborah Yim '01 and her husband Tony Yao welcomed their daughter Alexandra Grace in February. Deborah continues to practice civil litigation as an assistant United States attorney in Los Angeles. She is also the executive director of a nonprofit children's literacy program called Kids Reading to Succeed, which provides free reading enrichment programs to low income and at-risk youth in Los Angeles County on the first Saturday of each month. She would love to have some UCLA Law alumni come out and volunteer. For more information, check out the organization's website at www.kidsreadingtosucceed.org or e-mail Deborah at dyim98@gmail.com. Celeste E. Drake '02 has taken a new position as trade policy specialist with the AFL-CIO. She recently testified before the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Subcommittee of the Executive Branch on labor rights in Georgia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. She also has an upcoming publication in the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law entitled "U.S. Trade and Economic Policy: American Workers Need More than Strong Labor Chapters."
Jeffrey D. Masters '80 Jeffrey R. Matsen '67 Lawrence E. May '72 Michael A. McAndrews '71 John D. McConaghy '71 Melissa R. McCormick '95 Alexander C. McGilvray, Jr. '74 Winston K. McKesson '82 David S. McLane '86 Raymond J. McMahon '93 Thomas M. McMahon '82 Robert I. McMurry '82 Randy W. Medina '94 Michael L. Meeks '94 Everett F. Meiners '64 John Melissinos '89 Scott M. Mendler '82 Mitchell B. Menzer '84 Valerie J. Merritt '76 David G. Meyer '84 Paul S. Meyer '71 Allen L. Michel '75 Philip Michels '73 Louis R. "Skip" Miller '72 Alan M. Mirman '75 Robert Jay Moore '77 Schuyler M. Moore '81 John M. Moscarino '85 Eugene C. Moscovitch '73 Forrest S. Mosten '72 Jon R. Mower '76 Craig A. Moyer '80 Susan M. Natland '98 Mark A. Neubauer '76 Martin A. Neumann '81 David Wheeler Newman '77 Phillip G. Nichols '74 Terence S. Nunan '74 James G. O'Callahan '86 Michael J. O'Connor '79 David J. O'Keefe '64 Cris K. O'Neall '86 Patricia M. O'Toole '80 Royal F. Oakes '77 Sam S. Oh '93 Joel R. Ohlgren '68 Marshal A. Oldman '76 Patricia K. Oliver '97 Elliott D. Olson '67 Robert E. Opera '81
Natalie Bridgeman Fields '02 has been recognized with a 2012 Genius Award from Elle magazine and was featured in the July 2012 issue. She was honored for her work as founder and executive director of Accountability Counsel, which provides legal representation for communities suffering environmental abuses from international development projects.
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Ofer Lion '02 has joined Hunton & Williams LLP in downtown Los Angeles as counsel. He continues his tax-exempt organizations practice after teaching the subject as an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law last year. Ofer remains in the news after his high-profile involvement with 501(c)(4)s last year, including being heavily quoted recently in a New York Times article about the property tax exemption for California nonprofits.
Kaye Steinsapir '02 has been promoted to counsel at Bryan Cave LLP. Steinsapir practices out of the firm's Santa Monica office in the labor and employment area, and her practice includes state and federal discrimination, harassment, retaliation and disability claims, as well as wage-and-hour class and collective actions.
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Matthew Wrysinski '02 has been named a partner in the Global Finance & Debt Products Group of Alston & Bird LLP. Wrysinski, formerly with McGuireWoods, represents commercial banks, finance companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies in various types of secured and unsecured financings.
James A. Godwin '05 has joined Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren's Business Litigation and Labor and Employment law practice groups. James has experience counseling and defending employers in all labor and employment matters. He represents businesses in discrimination, harassment, retaliation, compliance and contractual employment disputes. James also has experience in general business litigation including contract, fiduciary and shareholder disputes. Joshua Schneiderman '05 was chosen as a 2012 "40 Under 40" Award Finalist for the M&A Advisor Recognition Awards, West Region, for his leadership in and contribution to the areas of business and finance. Schneiderman currently practices at Snell and Wilmer, representing a variety of clients in corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate governance matters. Benjamin Taylor '05 has joined the Century City litigation firm Miller Barondess, LLP. His practice includes an array of highstakes business litigation matters. Abigail Wong Grigsby '06 recently departed Hooper, Lundy & Bookman for an in-house position with City of Hope National Medical Center. Jaimee D. Johanning '06 has joined the Omaha law firm of Gross & Welch as of counsel and will be practicing in the areas of family law and mediation. Johanning is a Nebraska Approved Parenting Act Mediator and is a member of the Nebraska State Bar Association, Omaha Bar Association, Nebraska Academy of Collaborative Professionals, Nebraska Mediation Association and the California State Bar Association.
Todd Piro '03 is trying to become the male Savannah Guthrie! Todd joined the NBC owned and operated station in Hartford, Connecticut in April. He serves as an anchor/reporter and is starting the legal beat at the station. He welcomes any legal story ideas and can be reached at todd.piro@nbcuni.com.
BRETT COOK
Brett Cook '04 is the lead author of an article for a special edition of the Journal of Healthcare, Science and the Humanities (JHSH) in remembrance of the 80th anniversary of the start of syphilis experiments in Tuskegee, Alabama. The article examines the evolution of judicial doctrine and legislative procedures since the initiation of the Tuskegee study.
Marc R. Lewis '04 launched a new law firm, Lewis & Llewellyn. A national law firm based in San Francisco, the firm handles civil matters for plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal court.
Tritia Murata '04 and her husband Doug Murata are pleased to announce the birth of Benjamin Osamu Murata. Benjamin was born on November 29, 2011 weighing 7 lbs., 10 oz. and measuring 20 inches long. He loves music, books, swimming and meeting new people!
JAIMEE JOHANNING
Juan Rocha '06 has written an article on SB 1070 for the Arizona Daily Star. In his article, "Ruling on SB 1070 offers some protection against police harassment," Rocha explains what the Supreme Court's recent decision means from his personal perspective as an assistant federal public defender.
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Melvyn D. Sacks '64 Robert N. Sacks '86
Bruce C. Stuart '76 M. Kenneth Suddleson '68 William F. Sullivan '77 Mary-Christine "M.C." Sungaila '91 Joseph R. Taylor '87 Lawrence Taylor '69 Alan R. Templeman '71 Lawrence Teplin '64 Stacy E. Tolchin '01 Ilene E. Trabolsi '82 Paul D. Tripodi, II '92 William B. Tully '82 Randolph C. Visser '74 Bert Voorhees '88 William P. Wade '72 Bonnie Y. Wai '87 Paul J. Watford '94 H. Thomas Watson '92 Harvey E. Weinrieb '72 Eric Weissmann '54 Barry M. Weisz '78 Amy H. Wells '88 Leslie M. Werlin '75 Gary A. Wexler '73 Laurence S. Wiener '87 Daniel H. Willick '73 William L. Winslow '74 Marc J. Winthrop '74 Richard B. Wolf '69 Edward A. Woods '72 Roland Wrinkle '76 Geraldine A. Wyle '79 Scott N. Yamaguchi '91 Mia Frances Yamamoto '71 Kenneth M. Young '64 Edward W. Zaelke '83 Robert Zeller '75 Kenneth Ziffren '65 Stuart D. Zimring '71 Daniel Y. Zohar '93
sUper Lawyers
Juan Jose Red�n '07 is pleased to announce the birth of Sofia Elena Red�n. Sofia was born on February 23, 2012, weighing 8 lbs. and measuring 22 inches.
Thomas C. Sadler '82 Eric E. Sagerman '91 Mark A. Samuels '82 Howard Sanger '67 Robert M. Sanger '73 Deborah C. Saxe '78 David P. Schack '82 Benjamin D. Scheibe '81 John R. Schilling '67 David J. Schindler '87 Beth A. Schroeder '85 Jonathan Sears '89 Brad W. Seiling '89 Marc M. Seltzer '72 Peter S. Selvin '80 Michael D. Seplow '90 Anthony E. Shafton '66 Michael T. Shannon '69 Leslie Ellen Shear '76 Jonathan S. Shenson '96 Charles N. Shephard '77 Carl M. Shusterman '73 Lee I. Silver '68 Ronald I. Silverman '66 David Simantob '91 Roland G. Simpson '75 Keith A. Sipprelle '89 Calvin A. Slater '81 Ronald Slates '68 Steven E. Sletten '82 Joel M. Smith '71 Linda Smith '77 Martin J. Smith '81 Wayne W. Smith '72 Jonathan Solish '75 Gail D. Solo '75 Stephen Warren Solomon '64
Daniel Rodr�guez-Bravo '07 will be a panelist on the ABA's Section of International Law's October 2012 conference, "Environmental lender liability, Equator Principles and pathbreaking approaches in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico." He currently practices at Brigard & Urrutia, a law firm based in Bogot�, Columbia.
Haroon Azar '08 and his wife Saman welcomed baby Zahra on July 14, 2012.
Arthur O. Spaulding, Jr. '73 Scott J. Spolin '70 Sherman L. Stacey '74 Gail J. Standish '93 Harold J. Stanton '65 Martin Stein '65 Jonathan H. Steinberg '80 Gary S. Stiffelman '79 Thomas Stindt '70 Steven B. Stokdyk '91 Robert E. Strauss '90 Julia B. Strickland '78
Adam S. Cherensky '08 is now an associate at Barbosa, Metz & Harrison, LLP, handling plaintiff-side civil rights work (primarily ADA access cases). Carmina Ocampo '08 received a "2012 Community Advocate" award from the Philippine American Bar Association of Los Angeles.
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CLASS NOTES
Almuhtada Smith '08 recently joined Adli Law Group, P.C. Smith's practice is focused on intellectual property and entertainment litigation as well as transactional matters. Prior to joining Adli Law Group, Smith practiced at the Cochran Firm. Devin Coyle '09 has founded Workers' Counsel (www. WorkersCounsel.com), where he currently litigates individual and class action employment law cases on behalf of workers throughout the state of California. Previously, Coyle spent two years with a plaintiff's employment law firm in Los Angeles.
darcy and clifton mealS
Darcy Meals (n�e Pottle) '11 and Clifton Meals (UCLA Med '10) celebrated their marriage on February 18, 2012 in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, surrounded by family and friends, including many fellow Bruins. Darcy is currently clerking in federal district court in Baltimore and will soon transition to working as an associate at O'Melveny & Myers' Washington, D.C. office.
Jeff Stephens '09 and his wife Kelly are pleased to announce the birth of new baby Jeffrey James Stephens. Jeffrey was born on March 18, 2012 weighing 8lbs., 8 oz.
In MeMorIaM
Don Mike Anthony '63 Robert A. Bryson '63 Stephen Claman '59 Regina D. Cobb '85 Howard O. Culpepper '52 Peter M. Douglas '69 Victor M. Epport '53 Saul Grayson '52 Gary M. Horgan '74 Robert E. Keilly '67 Gary D. Lampert '74 Alberto J. Levario '75 Charles L. McKain, III '74 Frederick E. Mueller '52 Irving Neiman '56 Sally Pasette '69 Rose M. Pellino '82 Michael D. Rank '00 Richard E. Ross '77 H. Jess Senecal '55 Clark E. Shacklett '67 John W. Shannon '97 Norman L. Vetter '57 Robert Michael Wright '70 Jay Young '86
2010s to 2012
Sherry E. Jackman '10 is now an associate at Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp, LLP in San Francisco. Jackman joined the firm from the Los Angeles office of Paul Hastings LLP, where she was a member of the Environmental Law and Land Use practice groups.
Sherry JacKman
Bianca Zamb�o da Silva '10 will serve as a panelist on the ABA's Section of International Law's October 2012 conference, "Environmental lender liability, Equator Principles and pathbreaking approaches in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico." Zamb�o da Silva is an environmental risk coordinator based in Brazil.
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UCLA Law Super Lawyers "Rising Stars"
Congratulations to the uCla sChool of law alumni named southern California "2012 rising stars."
Panteha Abdollahi '03 Robert Abiri '05 A. Eric Aguilera '97 George S. Azadian '07 Rachel Wilkes Barchie '05 Peder K. Batalden '99 Elizabeth A. Bawden '00 Daphne P. Bishop '01 Amy Borlund '99 Erica A. Bose '01 Joshua Briones '99 Jennifer L. Brockett '97 Stephen D. Byers '02 Christopher T. Casamassima '00 Cheryl S. Chang '04 Felicia Chang '99 Alexander C. Chen '99 Ben Chung '01 Ryan P. Connolly '06 Anne Swoboda Cruz '03 Kevin Danesh '03 Brandon Davis '04 Shiva Delrahim '03 Nicole M. Duckett '98 Orly Z. Elson '05 Brian R. England '00 Donald R. Erlandson '99 Kathleen M. Erskine '02 Bijan Esfandiari '02 Denise G. Fellers '02 H. Alexander Fisch '02 Jason H. Fisher '02 Chad R. Fitzgerald '01 Miranda B. Fitzgerald '00 John T. Fogarty '98 Mitchell C. Frederick '06 Joshua Geffon '04 Ginetta L. Giovinco '03 Tam Trinh Glunt '02 Jeffrey M. Goldman '04 David A. Grossman '00 David M. Guess '05 Shannon Gustafson '03 Daniel R. Gutenplan '08 Laurel N. Haag '00 Sayema J. Hameed '02 Valerie W. Ho '98 Tiffany Hofeldt '03 Robert C. Horton '04 Raphael Javid '01 David Y. Joe '99 James Kawahito '04 Colleen M. Keating '08 Philip M. Kelly '00 Ryan C. Kirkpatrick '05 Keiko Kojima '99 Jolene Konnersman '01 Gregory P. Korn '99 Joseph E. Laska '02 Ryan M. Leaderman '99 Hope R. Levy-Biehl '98 Katherine H. Light '00 Christopher A. Lilly '97 Douglas A. Linde '01 Ofer Lion '02 Cheryl Lott '04 Willow A. Mc Jilton '03 Bonita D. Moore '02 Evan R. Moses '98 Matthew Nesburn '04 Erik M. North '05 Silvia Obagi '03 Juliet Y. Oh '00 Keith A. Orso '01 Janis H. Ozaki '07 Diane Y. Park '02 Lisa M. Patricio '01 Teri T.N. Pham '97 Joshua Piovia-Scott '02 Robert Pontelle '00 Lan T. Quach '02 Justin A. Radell '04 Oscar D. Ramallo '05 Cindy Reichline '04 Kevin D. Rising '00 Ariel B. Robinson '07 Yuval Rogson '04 Dylan Ruga '04 Craig S. Rutenberg '99 Misty M. Sanford '05 Julie D. Schisler '98 Karl Schmitz '03 Hillary Slevin '00 Cheryl M. Snow '97 Katy Spillers '05 Jonathan Steinsapir '02 Kaye E. Steinsapir '02 Heather E. Stern '01 Michael N. Steuch '98 Michelle K. Sugihara '01 Paul D. Swanson '99 Vivian Lee Thoreen '02 Adriana A. Vesci '02 Keith B. Walker '04 Garret D. Weinrieb '02 Amy Williams '03 Ryan J. Williams '03 Eric D. Winston '98 Matthew J. Wrysinski '02 Navid Yadegar '99 David H. Yeremian '01 Joshua F. Young '04 Stephanie D. Zaffos '99
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LAW FIRM CHALLENGE
Law Firm Challenge 2012
The UCLA School of Law alumni community stepped up more than ever before to provide unprecedented philanthropic support during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2012. An astounding 80% of alumni participating in the 2012 Law Firm Challenge made gifts to the law school, with the firms listed here--52 of the 98 challenge firms--achieving 100% participation in giving.
100% FIRMS AND REPRESENTATIVES
Group I (30+ UCLA Law Alumni)
Cox Castle & Nicholson LLP
31 alumni � Doug Snyder '81, Tamar Stein '77 and Keith Walker '04
Group III (Up to 10 UCLA Law Alumni)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Baker, Burton & Lundy, P.C.
2 alumni � Brad Baker '75 9 alumni � Matt Nesburn '04 and Justin Radell '04
Lewis & Llewellyn LLP
2 alumni � Marc Lewis '04
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
55 alumni � Nathaniel Bach '08, David Egdal '03, Ruth Fisher '80 and Wayne Smith '72
Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor LLP
3 alumni � Joe Taylor '87
Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt LLP
2 alumni � John Golper '75
Latham & Watkins LLP
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
6 alumni � Shiva Delrahim '03
102 alumni � Jim Barrall '75
Bonne Bridges Mueller O'Keefe & Nichols LLP
2 alumni � David O'Keefe '64
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP O'Melveny & Myers LLP Paul Hastings LLP
McLeod, Moscarino, Witham & Flynn LLP
3 alumni � John Moscarino '85
37 alumni � Rory Donald '09, Maggie Levy '75 and Nancy Whang '00
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP
3 alumni � Beth Collins-Burgard '02
Maron & Sandler PC
38 Alumni � Rich Parker '74, Mark Samuels '82 and Ryan Yagura '98
The Burdge Law Firm PC
2 alumni � Dick Burdge '79
2 alumni � Richard Sandler '73
Osborn Maledon, P.A. Parsus LLP
40 alumni � Nancy Abell '79 and Heather Morgan '94
2 alumni � Geoff Sturr '90 4 alumni - Ju Park '05
Caldwell Leslie & Proctor, PC
3 alumni � Arwen Johnson '06
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
35 alumni � Jeff Cohen '88, David Eisman '93, Allison Holcombe '09, Kevin Minnick '08 and Harriet Posner '84
Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP
9 alumni � Bob Green '75 and Jason Martone '07
Russ August & Kabat
5 alumni � Marc Fenster '95
Group II (11-29 UCLA Law Alumni)
Arnold & Porter LLP
17 alumni � Liz Frank '06 and Sean Morris '96
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
3 alumni � Vanessa Lavely '08
Shumener, Odson & Oh LLP
2 alumni � Henry Oh '96
Daniels Fine Israel, Schonbuch & Lebovits, LLP
4 alumni � Mark Israel '86
Slater Hersey & Lieberman LLP
3 alumni � Mark Slater '87
Baker & Hostetler LLP
12 alumni
Garrett & Tully, P.C.
4 alumni � Tammy Weaver '05
SNR Denton
6 alumni � Art Levine '66
Cooley LLP
25 alumni � John Crittenden '81
Goldberg, Lowenstein & Weatherwax LLP
2 alumni � Nathan Lowenstein '05
Stutman Treister & Glatt
2 alumni � Alex Fisch '02
DLA Piper LLP (US)
16 alumni � Bill Donovan '91
Hoffman, Sabban & Watenmaker, APC
3 alumni � Paul Hoffman '76
Susman Godfrey LLP
2 alumni
Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP
13 alumni - Brett Cohen '85
Horgan, Rosen, Beckham & Coren, L.L.P.
3 alumni � Mel Aranoff '75
White & Case
9 alumni � Jim Cairns '88 and Dustin Linden '11
Irell & Manella LLP
20 alumni � Richard Birnholz '90
Jaffe and Clemens
3 alumni � Dan Jaffe '62
Ziffren Brittenham LLP Zuber & Taillieu LLP
8 alumni � Melanie Cook '78 2 alumni � Tristan Mackprang '02
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
20 alumni � Philip Chen '00
Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Brill L.L.P.
2 alumni � Juliet Oh '00
McDermott, Will & Emery LLP
19 alumni � Brandon Roker '99
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, LLP
23 alumni � Aluyah Imoisili '06 and David Lamb '79
BRUINS HIRING BRUINS
Help Build the Alumni Network!
The next time you are looking to hire on a full-time, part-time or contract basis, turn to the UCLA Law Office of Career Services to connect you to talented UCLA Law students and alumni. The Office of Career Services provides employers with an opportunity to post job listings or collect resumes, free of charge, for UCLA Law students and alumni. Jobs may be posted directly to the UCLA Law Career Services site at www.law.ucla.edu. For additional information, please contact Beth Moeller, assistant dean of career services, at (310) 206-1117 or careers@law.ucla.edu.
24 alumni � Felicia Chang '99 and Allan Cutrow '71
Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
13 alumni � Ira Kharasch '82
Pircher, Nichols & Meeks
15 alumni � Ariel Robinson '07
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
23 alumni � Rob Becher '97
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FALL 2012 VOL. 35 NO. 1
� 2012 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS BOX 951476 | LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90095-1476
Rachel F. Moran
Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Lauri L. Gavel Executive Director of Communications
UCLA LAW BOARD OF ADVISORS
Nelson Rising '67, Chair Nancy L. Abell '79 James D.C. Barrall '75 Jonathan F. Chait '75 Stephen Claman '59 Melanie K. Cook '78 David J. Epstein '64 David W. Fleming '59 Richard I. Gilchrist '71 Arthur N. Greenberg '52 Bernard A. Greenberg '58 Antonia Hernandez '74 Margarita Pal�u Hern�ndez '85 Joseph K. Kornwasser '72 Stewart C. Kwoh '74 Victor B. MacFarlane '78 Michael T. Masin '69 Alicia Mi�ana de Lovelace '87 Wendy Munger '77 Gregory M. Nitzkowski '84 Paul S. Rutter '78 Richard V. Sandler '73 Ralph J. Shapiro '58 Stacey G. Snider '85 Bruce H. Spector '67 The Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw '79 Charles R. Williams Kenneth Ziffren '65
EDITORS
Lauri L. Gavel Executive Director of Communications Sara Rouche Communications Officer
DESIGN
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CONTRIBUTOR
Jeremy Deutchman Contributing Writer
PHOTOGRAPHY
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UCLA LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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PRINTER
The Castle Press Pasadena, California
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